Category Archives: Services
After the War: The Victory Internationals, 1945-46
With the onset of the Second World War, official international rugby was put on hiatus in 1939. After the war ended in 1945, there was one season before fixtures officially resumed and it was in this period that the Victory Internationals were played to fill the void… Continue reading
Remembering Bob Weighill
Remembering Bob Weighill, the England captain who helped pave the way for the Normandy landings… Continue reading
The 1919 Rugby World Cup Final…
A century ago, in this deciding clash for George V’s King’s Cup, could the Mother Country reverse their earlier defeat by New Zealand, or would the men from 12,000 miles away maintain their edge and build on the winning reputation they and their countrymen had built over the previous fifteen years? Continue reading
Play-offs loom in the 1919 King’s Cup…
The Services teams from Down Under finally clashed at Bradford after a snow-postponement, and the against-the-odds Aussie win helped the Mother Country in their hopes of forcing a play-off for the 1919 Kings Cup… Continue reading
1919 King’s Cup tournament draws towards its climax…
As the King’s Cup tournament of 1919 drew towards its climax, the Mother Country and New Zealand travelled north of the border to Edinburgh’s Inverleith, for what turned out to be a terrific foretaste of the eventual final and produced the ‘Storey’ of the day… Continue reading
The RAF – and “Taffy” – shot down on St David’s Day…
In the ‘King’s Cup’ opening encounter the fledgling Royal Air Force outfit, with the last- minute addition of an amazing Air Force character, met a strong New Zealand Services XV at a windblown Swansea on St David’s Day 1919… Continue reading
Flying Lions: Louis Greig
Flying Lions: Louis Greig
Continuing our series of biographies by David Smith, covering some of the British & Irish Lions who served with the RAF. Continue reading
