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 Harpur, Thomas Gerald OBE played for Ireland Internationals: 3 : 1908 E- S+ W- Thomas Harpur was born on about 30 October 1887 Played as a Forward for: Trinity College Dublin, Dublin University Profession: Medicine War service: NZ Medical Corps and 2nd Battalion, Auckland Regiment, 2nd NZ Brigade, NZ Division. Remarks: Emigrated to NZ. He died on n/k
I wonder if he was also a minister ?? .... just a thought ! FULL NAME - Thomas Gerald Harpur FORENAME(S) - Thomas Gerald SURNAME - Harpur WAR - World War I, 1914-1918 SERIAL NO. - 3/3155 FIRST KNOWN RANK - Captain OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT - Medical practitioner NEXT OF KIN - Mrs Gertrude Douglas Harpur (wife), The Vicarage, Hunterville, New Zealand BODY ON EMBARKATION - New Zealand Expeditionary Force EMBARKATION UNIT - 25th Reinforcements New Zealand Medical Corps EMBARKATION DATE - 26 April 1917 PLACE OF EMBARKATION - Wellington, New Zealand TRANSPORT - HMNZT 83 VESSEL - Tofua or Turakina DESTINATION - Plymouth, England NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER - 62 PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL - 27 SOURCES USED - Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1918 http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/data...x?OriginalID=91582&SearchID=7813171&Ordinal=3 NEW ZEALAND AND WORLD WAR ONE ROLL OF HONOUR HUNTERVILLE, RANGITIKEI LIST OF MEN WHO LEFT HUNTERVILLE FOR SERVICE IN THE WAR - 1914 - 1918. HARPUR T G The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football HARPUR TG ( Dublin University ) 1908 v E 1908 v S 1908 v W http://books.google.com/books?id=df...resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
* Snippets * Trinity College Dublin - July 1907 Top left hand side page 61 I'm not sure if this is him or not !! ....... *PAGE 232 http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1Auck-t1-body-d27.html
