Patrick Blair (rugby union) explained

Patrick Charles Bentley Blair (18 July 1891 – 6 July 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.

Biography

Blair was born in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, the son of Rev. Charles Patrick Blair and Jeanie Bogle Smith Blair.^[1] He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he played rugby and field hockey, and King's College, Cambridge.^[2] where he played for the King's College team and Cambridge University RFC.

Blair was capped five times for in 1912–13,^[3] against,,, and .^[2]

After earning a first-class degree at Cambridge, Blair joined the Egyptian Civil Service's Finance Department. After World War I began, he returned to Cambridge for military training. He was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in March 1915. Four months later, he was killed by a shell in Boezinge, Flanders.^[2] He is buried in the Talana Farm Cemetery.^[4]

External links

• "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1891 BLAIR, PATRICK CHARLES BENTLEY (Statutory registers Births 853/B 15) . Scotland's People . . subscription .
2. Book: McCrery . Nigel . Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War . 2014 . Pen and Sword . 9781781590874 . 161 . en.
3. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007)
4. Web site: Casualty: Second Lieutenant Blair, Patrick Charles Bentley . Commonwealth War Graves Commission . 23 June 2018 . en.