Albert Luvian Wade
| Born | Albert Luvian Wade 20 September 1884[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 28 April 1917 (aged 32) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Dulwich College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lt. Albert Luvian Wade (20 September 1884 – 28 April 1917) was a Scottish rugby union player. He was killed in World War I.[3]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Wade, known as Bertie, was born in Glasgow. He attended Dulwich College, where he captained the First XV.[1]
Rugby union career
[edit | edit source]He played for London Scottish FC and was capped for Scotland on 21 March 1908,[3] at Inverleith in the Scotland vs England match which was won by Scotland.
Military service
[edit | edit source]Wade was killed at Oppy Wood, near Arras on 28 April 1917, whilst serving as a Lieutenant in 17th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, on temporary attachment to a trench mortar battery. He was 32 years of age and has no known grave, being commemorated on the Arras Memorial.[4]
References
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- ^ Albert Wade Profile on scrum.com
- ^ a b Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany, p. 109. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
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External links
[edit | edit source]- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009
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- 1884 births
- 1917 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Barbarian F.C. players
- Rugby union players from Glasgow
- People educated at Dulwich College
- Middlesex Regiment officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Military personnel from Glasgow
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs
- British Army personnel stubs