This is one of a series of posts to mark the international Rugby players who died during The Great War. If anyone has further information on the men concerned, I’d be most grateful if it could be added to the thread. Gareth Kendall, Percy Dale (‘Toggie’) played for England Internationals: 3 : 1901 S- ; 1902 W- ; 1903 S- Percy Kendall was born on 21 August 1878 in Prescott, Lancashire, the Son of Francis Henry and Margaret Eulalie Kendall. Husband of Kathrine Minnie Bingham Kendall (nee Higginson). Played as a Fly-half/Scrum-half for: Elleray School New Brighton, Tonbridge School, Cambridge University, Blackheath, Birkenhead Park, Cheshire Profession: Solicitor War service: Lieutenant, 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment, 9th Brigade, 3rd Division. He was commissioned on 14 October 1914. Remarks: Captained Cheshire v New Zealand in 1905. Within 12 hours of the outbreak of hostilities on 4 August 1914, in company with fellow international J Baxter he offered the Birkenhead Park RFC ground to the military and volunteered for service. He was killed in action at Ypres on 21 January 1915 and is commemorated in the Kemmel Churchyard memorial, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen Belgium [Special Memorial. 14].
He was the captain of the Cheshire team against the All blacks on 9th December 1905 G F Tomes (New Brighton) E S Ashcroft (Birkenhead Park) C J Clarke (New Brighton) A S Anderson (Birkenhead Park) A Hartley (Sale) P D Kendall (captain, Birkenhead Park) E C Hulme (Birkenhead Park) E Herschell (Birkenhead Park) J S Francomb (Sale) E A Weir (New Brighton) A M Johnstone (Birkenhead Park) H J M Edgar (Birkenhead Park) A Taylor (Birkenhead Park) G C Sanderson (Birkenhead Park) S J Richardson (Birkenhead Park) http://therugbyhistorysociety.co.uk/kendall.html In Memory of Lieutenant PERCY DALE KENDALL 10th Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment) who died age 36 on 25 January 1915 Son of Francis Henry and Margaret Eulalie Kendall, of Liverpool; husband of Kathrine Minnie Bingham Kendall (nee Higginson), of The Glebe House, Walmer, Kent. Former Rugby Union player. Remembered with honour KEMMEL CHURCHYARD In Memory of Second Lieutenant FREDERICK HARDING TURNER 10th Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment) who died age 27 on 10 January 1915 Son of W.N. Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool. Former Scotland International Rugby Football Player (Capped 15 times, Captain 1913). His brother William also fell. Remembered with honour KEMMEL CHURCHYARD
I wonder if either of them are on this photo ? I'm not sure what year it is though .... ( definitely WW1 !! )
Frederick is remembered at St Hildeburghs Church Hoylake Cheshire - which has the War Memorial for the Royal Liverpool Golf Club Hoylake There are two inscribed brass panels - with the names of Members of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club who fell in the two world wars. THE EAST WINDOW OF THIS CHURCH IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL LIVERPOOL GOLF CLUB WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 Edward Henry BROCKLEHURST Allan BUCHANAN George Trevor-Roper COOK Vivian James DARBYSHIRE Leslie Finlay DUN Christian Dalrymple DUNLOP Godfrey FITZHUGH James Houghton GETTY John GRAHAM Junr Ambrose Dennis H GRAYSON James HARVEY William HARVEY Ernest HERSCHELL George Frederick HIGGINS Mathew HONAN Arthur HUGHES Percy LANCASTER Donald MACLEOD Kenneth McDIARMID William Sproat MONTGOMERY Alan Gifford NICHOLSON Thomas Simpson PATERSON Thomas Keith Hedley RAE Dudley Holme SCOTT Eric Francis SELLARS Herbert Whiteley SELLARS Basil STOTT Frederick Harding TURNER Arthur TWENTYMAN Herbert Douglas VERNON Arthur Nimmo WALKER George Douglas WILSON John Alfred WOLFF Richard F WOLSTENHOLME http://www.carlscam.com/wirral/golfmem.htm
