| Birth name | Alexander William Angus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 24 February 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 May 1915 (aged 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hooge, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Pearson (24 February 1889 – 22 May 1915) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Centre. At the First World War, Pearson joined the Royal Scots as a soldier; he was killed in Second Battle of Ypres. [1]
Pearson was born in Dalkeith, Midlothian. He was educated at George Watson's College, where he played cricket for the Watsonians. A friend encouraged him to take up rugby as well, and he soon excelled at that as well. [2]
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1910 inter-city match. Edinburgh won the match 26-5. [3]
He served as a Private with the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots during the war. Following the Second Battle of Ypres, he was shot and killed by a sniper while going for water in Sanctuary Wood in May 1915. [4]
He is buried at Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (plot VE 27) but also remembered on the special memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War, at Fromelles in north France. [5]
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