William Travers (2 December 1913 – 4 June 1998),
Scrum.com commonly known as Bunner Travers, was a

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international

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player. He was selected for the

1938 British Lions tour to South Africa The 1938 British Isles tour to South Africa was the fourteenth tour by a British and Irish Lions, British Isles team and the sixth to South Africa. The tour is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming conve ...

. Travers played club rugby for

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; he was the son of George Travers, also a Wales international.

References

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