William Alexander Ross (15 November 1913 – 28 September 1942) was a Scottish international
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 was killed in World War II.
[Bath, p. 109][Scrum.com player profile. Retrieved 20 February 2010]
He was capped twice for in 1937 at fly-half.
[ He also played for ]Hillhead RFC
Hillhead Rugby Football Club is a former rugby union football club based in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1904 as a club for former pupils of Hillhead High School, it lasted until 1988 when it merged with Jordanhill RFC to form Hillhead Jordanh ...
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See also
* List of Scottish rugby union players killed in World War II
The following is a list of former international Scottish rugby union players killed in the Second World War.
* Tom Dorward, died on 5 March 1941
* Drummond Ford, died on 12 December 1942
* John Forrest, died on 14 September 1942.
* George Ga ...
Sources
* Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )
* Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; )
References
External links
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CWGC entry
1913 births
1942 deaths
Military personnel from Glasgow
Scottish airmen
Scottish rugby union players
Scotland international rugby union players
Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II
Hillhead RFC players
Royal Air Force airmen
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Burials at Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
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