Scotland international rugby union player
Rugby player
Walter Sutherland
Birth name Walter Riddell Sutherland Date of birth (1890-11-19 ) 19 November 1890Place of birth Hawick , Scotland Date of death 4 October 1918(1918-10-04) (aged 27) Place of death Hulluch , France
Walter Riddell Sutherland (19 October 1890 – 4 October 1918), also known as Wattie Suddie ,[ 1] Scotland international rugby union player.[ 2]
Early life
Sutherland was the son of Alexander and Isabella Sutherland of the Imperial Hotel in Hawick , Roxburghshire . He was educated at Teviot Grove Academy before training to be a sanitary inspector in Hawick. He also played cricket and football and was a champion runner, winning the Scottish Borders title at multiple distances.[ 3]
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Hawick RFC .[ 3] [ 4]
Provincial career
Sutherland played for the South of Scotland in 1910 .[ 5]
International career
He gained 13 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1910 and 1914 and was regarded as the best Scottish wing threequarter of his day.[ 6]
Military career
The outbreak of the First World War put end to his rugby career, and he served with the Lothians and Border Horse , later the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and finally the Seaforth Highlanders . Second Lieutenant Sutherland was killed in France on 4 October 1918, aged 27, just five weeks before the armistice .[ 3] Pas-de-Calais .[ 7]
References
^ McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London ISBN 0-09-173875-X ), p19
^ "Walter Riddell Sutherland" . ESPN scrum . 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021 .^ a b c McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War ISBN 9781781590874 . Retrieved 24 June 2018 . ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6 )
^ "Register" British Newspaper Archive .^ Bogle, Kenneth, Walter Sutherland Scotland's Rugby Legend 1890–1918 (ISBN 0-7524-3613-9 )
^ "Casualty Details: Sutherland, Walter Riddell" . Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 24 June 2018 .
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