John MacCallum

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John MacCallum
Birth nameJohn Cameron MacCallum
Date of birth(1883-10-11)11 October 1883
Place of birth Strontian, Scotland
Date of death29 November 1957(1957-11-29) (aged 74)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Watsonians ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1910
1911		 Edinburgh District
Blues Trial 		()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1903 Scotland 26 (24)

John MacCallum (11 October 1883 – 29 November 1957) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Watsonians. [1]

Provincial career

He represented Edinburgh District in 1910, captaining the side. [2]

He played for the Blues Trial side against the Whites Trial side on 21 January 1911 while still with Watsonians. [3]

International career

He played 26 times for Scotland, scoring 2 tries and 9 conversions for a total of 24 points. [4]

Medical career

MacCallum became a doctor. He became an assistant surgeon for the Royal Sick Children Hospital in Glasgow. [5]

He was a conscientious objector in the First World War. His medical training meant he was assigned a post in the army. At the time he was an Executive Tuberculosis officer for the County of Argyll. He had applied for his conscientious objector status but it had not come through. He was supposed to report to Stirling Castle for his conscription on 30 May 1916 and his non attendance found him in front of a judge in Oban Sheriff Court. MacCallum plead not guilty in view of his conscientious objection but the Sheriff found him guilty and gave him a choice of week's imprisonment or a £2 fine. The headline in The Scotsman "Fined as an absentee" indicated that MacCallum opted for the fine. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  2. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  3. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - John MacCallum - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  5. ↑ "Pic". ww.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Fined as an absentee". The Scotsman– via British Newspaper Archive.


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