Lieutenant Colonel Roy Leyland (6 March 1912 – 4 January 1984) was a British Army officer and England international

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player of the 1930s.

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Leyland was born in Astley, a village between Manchester and Wigan. He attended Wigan Grammar School and

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, where he gained rugby colours his freshman year. A three-quarter, Leyland attained three

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caps in the

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. These remained his only England matches, although he subsequently achieved a British Lions call up, making uncapped appearances on the 1938 tour South Africa. He played for the Army, Barbarians, Combined Services, Hampshire, Lancashire, Leicester, Richmond, Waterloo and Wigan Old Boys over the course of his career. Leyland served with the

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during World War II and participated in the North West Europe campaign. He was a staff officer in Iraq during the early 1950s and in 1957 was awarded an OBE for his military service. Retiring a Lieutenant Colonel in 1959, Leyland became a civilian lecturer at Sandhurst.

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