Bernard Charlton "Bunny" Reid (12 July 1910 – 11 September 1976) was a South African international

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player. Reid grew up in

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, where he attended

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, but was from

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originally. He played his early rugby at East London club Cambridge and competed for

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provincially. He was capped for the first and only time in a Test match against

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at Port Elizabeth in 1933, as a full-back. During the 1930s, Reid was also a competent

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er and played two first-class matches for the

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. The first was against

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in the 1934/35

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and the second against

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in the same competition, two seasons later. Reid, who played as a right handed lower order

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, also had a younger brother named Seymour who later played cricket for Border.

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1910 births South African rugby union players South Africa international rugby union players South African cricketers Border cricketers 1976 deaths Rugby union players from East London, South Africa Rugby union fullbacks Border Bulldogs players Alumni of Grey High School {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1910s-stub