Birth name | Thomas Henry Willcocks | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | June 1877 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Buckfastleigh, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 20 April 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Budeaux, Plymouth (aged 80 years 340 days) | ||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Willcocks (1877 - 1958) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1902 to 1902. [1]
Thomas Willcocks was born in 1877 in Buckfastleigh. [1]
Willcocks made his international debut and only appearance for England on 11 January 1902 at the Rectory Field, Blackheath where England lost to Wales. [1]
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