William Penman
Encyclopedia
William Mitchell Penman was a Scottish international rugby union
player, who was killed in World War II, when he was shot down over Hanover
.
He was capped once for in 1939. He also played for the RAF rugby team.
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, who was killed in World War II, when he was shot down over Hanover
Hanover
Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
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He was capped once for in 1939. He also played for the RAF rugby team.
Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1905326246)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0 904919 84 6)
External links
- Player profile on scrum.com