William Campbell Church

Bill Church
Born	William Campbell Church; 5 August 1883; Partick, Glasgow, Scotland
Died	28 June 1915 (aged 31); Gallipoli, Turkey
Rugby union career
Position
Position	Centre / Wing
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
	Glasgow University
1904-07	Glasgow Academicals
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
	Glasgow District
International career
Years	Team
1906	Scotland

Capt. William Campbell Church (5 August 1883 – 28 June 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Church was born in Partick, Glasgow, to William Reginald Monteith Church, a chartered accountant and stockbroker, and Christina Ainslie Church.^[3] He was educated at Glasgow Academy but left for Switzerland in 1902.^[4]^[5] He was educated at South African College.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He moved back to Scotland to attend university,^[6] where he played for Glasgow Academicals.^[4] He played on the wing for rugby union side.^[4]

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in 1906.^[7]

International career

Church was capped for Scotland in 1906.^[8] He was also selected to play against New Zealand but he declined this.^[4]

Military career

He was killed in action in World War I while serving with the Cameronians during the Gallipoli campaign.^[8] He is on the Helles Memorial for the missing at Gallipoli.^[9]^[10]

References

↑ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
↑ "William Campbell Church". ESPN scrum.
↑ "1883 CHURCH, WILLIAM CAMPBEL (Statutory registers Births 646/3 1096)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
1 2 3 4 "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Captain William Campbell Church". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk.
↑ "William Campbell Church : Rugby Player | Military History Forum". www.militarian.com.
↑ "Rugby international among new names to be added to university war memorial". The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee). 25 June 2018 – via PressReader.
↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
1 2 Bath, p. 109
↑ "Casualty: Captain Church, William Campbell". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
↑ "William Campbell Church – Friends of Glasgow Necropolis". www.glasgownecropolis.org.

External links

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

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[1] Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)

[2] "William Campbell Church". ESPN scrum.

[registry-3] "1883 CHURCH, WILLIAM CAMPBEL (Statutory registers Births 646/3 1096)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.

[auto-4] 1 2 3 4 "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Captain William Campbell Church". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk.

[5] "William Campbell Church : Rugby Player | Military History Forum". www.militarian.com.

[6] "Rugby international among new names to be added to university war memorial". The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee). 25 June 2018 – via PressReader.

[7] "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.

[Bath1-8] 1 2 Bath, p. 109

[9] "Casualty: Captain Church, William Campbell". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.

[10] "William Campbell Church – Friends of Glasgow Necropolis". www.glasgownecropolis.org.

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