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William Hutchison
Birth nameWilliam Ramsay Hutchison
Date of birth(1889-01-16)16 January 1889[1]
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland
Date of death22 March 1918(1918-03-22) (aged 29)
Place of deathArras, France
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Glasgow HSFP ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Glasgow District ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1911 Scotland 1 (0)

Capt. William Ramsay Hutchison (16 January 1889 – 22 March 1918) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He was killed in World War I.[2]

He was born in Hillhead, Glasgow the son of John Hutchison MA LLD and his wife, Margaret Paterson McCall and was educated at Glasgow Academy.[3]

He played for Glasgow District in the inter-city match against Edinburgh District on 3 March 1910.[4]

Memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War, at Fromelles

He played for Glasgow High School FP and was capped for Scotland in 1911.[5]

He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers[6] in 1912 and promoted to Captain in 1913. He was sent to France at the beginning of the First World War seeing action at the Battle of Loos and on the Somme at Delville Wood and other conflicts. In 1917 he fought at the Battle of the Scarpe, Pilckem and Langemark before being killed in the Battle of Saint-Quentin on 22 March 1918. His body was not found.[7]

He is remembered on the Arras memorial bay 5[8] and on the memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War at Fromelles in north France.

References

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  1. ^ "William Hutchison - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  3. ^ https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/7149/Hutchison-William-Ramsay-1889-1918
  4. ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
  5. ^ "ESPN". ESPN.com.
  6. ^ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1068612
  7. ^ https://www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/captain-william-ramsay-hutchison/
  8. ^ "Casualty Details: Hutchison, William Ramsay". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
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