William Campbell Church

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Bill Church
Birth nameWilliam Campbell Church
Date of birth(1883-08-05)5 August 1883
Place of birth Partick, Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death28 June 1915(1915-06-28) (aged 31)
Place of death Gallipoli, Turkey
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre / Wing
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Glasgow University ()
1904-07 Glasgow Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Glasgow District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1906 Scotland 1 (0)

Capt. William Campbell Church (5 August 1883 – 28 June 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player. [1] [2]

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Early life

Church was born in Partick, Glasgow, to William Reginald Monteith Church, a chartered accountant and stockbroker, and Christina Ainslie Church. [3] He was educated at Glasgow Academy but left for Switzerland in 1902. [4] [5] He was educated at South African College.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He moved back to Scotland to attend university, [6] where he played for Glasgow Academicals. [4] He played on the wing for rugby union side. [4]

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in 1906. [7]

International career

Church was capped for Scotland in 1906. [8] He was also selected to play against New Zealand but he declined this. [4]

Military career

He was killed in action in World War I while serving with the Cameronians during the Gallipoli campaign. [8] He is on the Helles Memorial for the missing at Gallipoli. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN   1-905326-24-6)
  2. ↑ "William Campbell Church". ESPN scrum.
  3. ↑ "1883 CHURCH, WILLIAM CAMPBEL (Statutory registers Births 646/3 1096)" . Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Captain William Campbell Church". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ "William Campbell Church : Rugby Player | Military History Forum". www.militarian.com.
  6. ↑ "Rugby international among new names to be added to university war memorial". The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee). 25 June 2018 – via PressReader.
  7. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  8. 1 2 Bath, p. 109
  9. ↑ "Casualty: Captain Church, William Campbell". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "William Campbell Church – Friends of Glasgow Necropolis". www.glasgownecropolis.org.


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