| Birth name | George Alexander Walker Lamond | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 July 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 25 February 1918 (aged 39) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lt.-Col. George Alexander Walker Lamond (23 July 1878 – 25 February 1918) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
He later joined the British Army as an officer, but he died during World War I.[2]
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Kelvinside Academicals in his native Glasgow.[1]
Provincial career
He was capped by Glasgow District. He scored a drop goal in the Inter-City match of 1898.[3]
International career
Engineering career
His rugby career was interrupted by his professional career; a civil engineer, Lamond joined the firm of Sir John Aird and moved to Egypt. For his services in the Middle East, he was decorated with the Order of the Medjidie and Order of Osmanieh by the Ottoman Empire.[2]
During the First World War, his skills were put to use by the Royal Engineers. He was first deployed to France, where his many engineering projects led to a promotion to lieutenant colonel, and then to Mesopotamia, where he was engaged in building the new Port of Basra over the Tigris and Euphrates. He fell ill with a fever and was sent to Sri Lanka to recover, but his conditioned worsened and he died in February 1918. He is buried in the non-conformist section of Colombo (Kanatte) General Cemetery, in Borella.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany, p. 109. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- 1 2 McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9781781590874. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ↑ "Casualty Details: Lamond, G. A. W." Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
External links
- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009