Charles Milne Usher (26 September 1891 – 21 January 1981,
Haddington) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
rugby union player, who played at
number eight, and also captained . He was capped sixteen times between 1912 and 1922 (partly due to the hiatus caused by
World War I
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).
Because of this, he has one of the longest international careers on record.
[Jones, pp56,57]
See also
*
Jock Wemyss
Andrew "Jock" Wemyss (pronounced "Weemz") (22 May 1893, Galashiels – 21 January 1974, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union player, who played at prop. Wemyss lost one of his eyes in World War I, but continued to play after the war (games we ...
, who also played on both sides of the war.
References
* Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )
* Jones, J.R. ''Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football'' (Robert Hale, London, 1976 )
profileat scrum.com
1891 births
1981 deaths
Scottish rugby union players
Scotland international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Edinburgh
Edinburgh Wanderers RFC players
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