James Ritchie (rugby union)
Appearance
James McPhail Ritchie (10 July 1907 – 6 July 1942) was a Scottish international rugby union player, who died in World War II at Rawalpindi in British India (now Pakistan) of enteric fever.[1][2]
He was capped six times for Scotland between 1933 and 1934.[1][2] He also played for Watsonians RFC.[1]
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- James Ritchie at ESPNscrum
Categories:
- 1907 births
- 1942 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Watsonian FC players
- Indian Army personnel killed in World War II
- Infectious disease deaths in Punjab, Pakistan
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- Punjab Regiment officers
- Rugby union props
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs