Lt. Albert Luvian Wade (20 September 1884 – 28 April 1917) was a Scottish rugby union player. He was killed in World War I.[3]
Birth name | Albert Luvian Wade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 September 1884[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 28 April 1917 | (aged 32)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Oppy Wood, Arras, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Dulwich College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life
editWade, known as Bertie, was born in Glasgow. He attended Dulwich College, where he captained the First XV.[1]
Rugby union career
editHe 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
editWade 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
edit- ^ a b McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. p. 208. ISBN 9781781590874.
- ^ Albert Wade Profile on scrum.com
- ^ a b Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany, p. 109. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- ^ "Casualty Details: Wade, Albert Luvian". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
External links
edit- "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009
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