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George Maurice Victor Sellars (16 April 18867 June 1917) 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 ...
player who represented New Zealand
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fifteen times, including two Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Indoor cricket, Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (associa ...
. He played club rugby for Ponsonby, and was first selected for Auckland
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in 1910, and in 1912 gained international selection for New Zealand Māori. Sellars was selected for the All Blacksas New Zealand's international team is knownfor their 1913 tour of North America where he played fourteen matches. As well, he was also in the All Blacks' side that played Australia
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immediately prior to their tour. Although unavailable to play for New Zealand the following year, he did represent the Māori again that season. In 1915 Sellars enlisted for service in the First World War, and he was fatally wounded in 1917 at the Battle of Messines. He has no known grave and his name is among those recorded on the Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial
The Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial is a World War I war memorial, memorial, located in Messines Ridge British Cemetery, near the town of Mesen, Belgium. The memorial lists 827 officers and men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force with ...
, at the Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
See also
* List of international rugby union players killed in World War IReferences
External links
* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sellars, George 1886 births 1917 deaths Military personnel from Auckland New Zealand international rugby union players New Zealand rugby union players Auckland rugby union players New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I Ponsonby RFC players Rugby union players from Auckland Rugby union hookers New Zealand Military Forces personnel of World War I New Zealand Army soldiers Māori All Blacks players