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Reginald "Rex" Armstrong OBE (6December 189717February 1968) was a
rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
international prop who represented
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in one international during
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. Armstrong was born in
Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle ( , Received Pronunciation, RP: ), is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is England's northernmost metropolitan borough, located o ...
and educated at the Newcastle University Medical School. He played for Durham Medicals, Northumberland and the Barbarians. During
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he served with the RAMC and was awarded the OBE in 1944. In 1967 he became the first doctor to describe Foot-and-mouth disease in man in the UK. He died in Morpeth. He was the grandfather of comedian and television presenter Alexander Armstrong.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/13/professor-john-walker-physician-revolutionised-training-gps/


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1897 births 1968 deaths Rugby union players from Newcastle upon Tyne Alumni of Newcastle University England international rugby union players Royal Army Medical Corps officers Officers of the Order of the British Empire British Army personnel of World War II Military personnel from Newcastle upon Tyne {{England-rugbyunion-bio-1890s-stub