Rugby player
Birth name | William Norman Renwick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1914-11-29)29 November 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 15 June 1944(1944-06-15) (aged 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Bolsena, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Norman Renwick (29 November 1914 – 15 June 1944) was a Scotland international rugby union player, who was killed in World War II at Bolsena.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Edinburgh Wanderers and London Scottish FC.
Provincial career
He represented Edinburgh District.
He played for the Scotland Possibles side in their trial match against the Scotland Probables on 15 January 1938.
International career
He was capped twice for Scotland between 1938 and 1939, scoring two tries.
See also
References
- ^ Bath, p109
- ^ Scrum.com player profile. Retrieved 20 February 2010
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Register". Retrieved 16 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
External links
- William Renwick at ESPNscrum
- CWGC entry
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- 1914 births
- 1944 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- British Army personnel killed in World War II
- Edinburgh Wanderers players
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
- Scotland Possibles players
- Royal Horse Artillery officers
- Military personnel from Edinburgh
- Rugby union players from Edinburgh
- Rugby union wings
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs