James Huggan

James Laidlaw Huggan (died on 16 September 1914, aged 25) was a Scotland rugby union player. He was killed in World War I^[1] at the First Battle of the Aisne.^[2] He died two days after Ronald Simson, another Scottish player, who was the first rugby international to die in the conflict, and who was also at the Aisne.^[2]

Huggan played for London Scottish RFC, and had taken part in the last rugby international before the war, the Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh) in March 1914.^[2] He scored three tries in that match.^[2]

References

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)

^ Bath, p109
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)

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An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)

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Date of death	16 September 1914
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