This is one of a series of posts to mark the international Rugby players who served in, and survived, 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 Harvey, George Alfred Duncan CB CMG played for Ireland Internationals: 5 : 1903 E+ S- ; 1904 W+ ; 1905 E+ S+ George Harvey was born on 27 October 1882 Played as a Centre for: Portora Grammar School, Wanderers Profession: Army War service: Major, Royal Army Medical Corps; CMG Gazetted 4 June 1917. He died on 22 September 1957
George Harvey Ireland Full name - George Alfred Duncan Harvey Born - October 27 1882 Died - September 22 1957, Colchester aged 74 Major teams - Ireland Position - Centre HARVEY, George Alfred Duncan (1882-1957) Major General Joined Royal Army Medical Corps 1904; World War I 1914-1918; attached to Egyptian Army 1914; Deputy Assistant Director General, Army Medical Services 1915-1918; Assistant Director of Medical Services, France 1919; Deputy Assistant Director General, War Office 1919-1921; Assistant Director of Hygiene, War Office 1926-1930; Assistant Director of Medical Services, Waziristan District, India 1933-1935; Deputy Director of Medical Services, Western Command, India 1935-1938; retired 1939; re-employed, World War II 1940-1944
