James Laidlaw Huggan was a rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player. He was killed in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 at the First Battle of the Aisne

First Battle of the Aisne

The First Battle of the Aisne was the Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army & Second Army as they retreated after the First Battle of the Marne earlier in September 1914...

. He died two days after Ronald Simson

Ronald Simson

Ronald Francis Simson, was a Scottish rugby union player for . Simson was the first rugby international - of any nationality - to die in the war...

, another Scottish player, who was the first rugby international to die in the conflict, and who was also at the Aisne.

Huggan played for London Scottish RFC, and had taken part in the last rugby international before the war, the Calcutta Cup

Calcutta Cup

The Calcutta Cup is a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between England and Scotland. It is currently England's since the 2009 Six Nations Championship....

 match at Inverleith

Inverleith

Inverleith is an inner suburb in the northern part of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the fringes of the central region of the city. It is an affluent suburb. Its neighbours include Trinity to the north and the New Town to the south, with Canonmills at the south-east and Stockbridge at the south-west...

(Edinburgh) in March, 1914. He scored three tries in that match.

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves database
• An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)