Walter Roman (rugby)
|
Personal information
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Walter James Roman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 July 1880 Bridgwater, England |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 July 1916 (aged 36) Cheltenham, England |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Playing information
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Rugby union
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Rugby league
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Walter James 'Rattler' Roman (1 July 1880 — 28 July 1916 (aged 36)) born in Bridgwater, was an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s, and 1910s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Somerset, and at club level for Bridgwater Dreadnaughts, and Bridgwater & Albion RFC (captain), alongside Robert Dibble, and Tommy Woods, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test matches), England, and Wales and the West of England, and at club level for Rochdale Hornets (captain), again alongside Tommy Woods.
Roman served with the Somerset Light Infantry in the Second Boer War, and Cawnpore (Kanpur, India), from 1899 to 1907, and later in World War I. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1 July 1916, his 36th birthday, he was admitted to the 12th Field Ambulance with hand, thigh, and leg injuries. He was evacuated from France on Wednesday 5 July 1916, and hospitalised in Cheltenham, his health initially appeared to improve, however he subsequently died of his wounds in Cheltenham.
Walter Roman won a cap for England (RL) while at Rochdale Hornets in the 16–12 victory over Wales at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Saturday 14 February 1914.
...
Wikipedia