List of England rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars

There were 27 players killed in the First World War.

• Harry Alexander; (7) died on 17 October 1915 Aged 35[1]
• Henry Berry; (4) died on 9 May 1915, Aged 32.[1]
• Henry Brougham, died on 18 February 1923 (of war wounds), Aged 34.[1]
• Arthur James Dingle; (3) died on 22 August 1915, Aged 23[1][2]
• George Eric Burroughs Dobbs, (1) died on 17 June 1917, Aged 32.[1][3]
• Leonard Haigh, (7) died on 6 August 1916 Aged 29.[1][4]
• Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands, (2) ("Reggie Hands") died on 20 April 1918, Aged 29[1] Hands was a South African who played cricket for South Africa and rugby for England.
• Arthur Leyland Harrison VC; (2) died on 23 April 1918, Aged 32[1]
• Harold Augustus Hodges; (2) died on 24 March 1918, Aged 32[1][5]
• Rupert Edward Inglis; (3) died on 18 September 1916, Aged 53[1][6]
• Percy Dale Kendall; (3) died on 21 January 1915, Aged 34[1][7]
• John Abbott King; (12) died on 9 August 1916, Aged 32[1][8]
• Ronald Lagden; (1) died on 3 March 1915, Aged 26[1][9]
• Douglas Lambert; (7) died on 13 October 1915, Aged 32[1][10]
• Alfred Frederick Maynard; (3) died on 13 November 1916, Aged 22[1][11]
• Edgar Roberts Mobbs, (7) ("Mobbsy") died on 29 July 1917, Aged 37[1]
• William Moore Bell Nanson; (2) died on 4 June 1915, Aged 34[1][12]
• Francis Eckley Oakeley; (4) died on 25 November 1914, Aged 23[1][13]
• Robert Pillman; (1) died on 9 July 1916, Aged 23[1][14]
• Ronald William Poulton-Palmer, (17) ("Ronnie Poulton") died on 5 May 1915, Aged 25[1]
• John Raphael, (9+1) died on 11 June 1917, Aged 35[1][15]
• Reginald Oscar Schwarz MC, ("Reggie Schwarz") (3) died on 18 November 1918, Aged 43[1] Schwarz also played cricket for South Africa and rugby union for England.
• Lancelot Slocock; (8) died on 9 August 1916, Aged 29[1]
• Francis Nathaniel Tarr; (4) died on 18 July 1915, Aged 27[1][16]
• Alexander Todd, (2+4) died on 21 April 1915, Aged 41[1]
• James Henry Digby Watson; (3) died on 15 October 1914, Aged 24.[1][17]
• Charles Edward Wilson; (1) died on 17 September 1914, Aged 43
• Arthur James Wilson, (1) died on 1 July 1917, Aged 29[1]

There were 14 players killed in the Second World War:

• Brian Henry Black (10+5)[18]
• Lewis Alfred Booth (7)[19]
• Paul Cooke (2)[20]
• Vivian Gordon Davies (2)[21]
• H.D. Freakes (3)
• R.A. Gerrard (14)
• W. G. E. Luddington (13)
• Robert Michall Marshall (5)[22]
• Alexander Obolensky (4)
• Ernest Ian Parsons(1)[23]
• Henry Rew (10+4)[24]
• Christopher Champain Tanner (5)[25]
• Derek Edmund Teden (3)[26]
• N.A. Wodehouse (14)

• List of international rugby union players killed in World War I

• Starmer-Smith, Nigel (ed) Rugby – A Way of Life, An Illustrated History of Rugby (Lennard Books, 1986 ISBN 0-7126-2662-X)

• http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/rugbyatwar.html