Nottingham Rugby has great history over many years, and as a club we had several players fight in the World Wars.
Below is a list of names of former players that gave themselves for their country during the wars.
World War 1
Wellesley Roe ALLEN Capel Lisle Aylett BRANFILL Archibald Viccars BRIGHT
Edmund Maurice BUCKLEY Montmorency Beaumont CHECKLAND Alexander Basil CRAWFORD
William Harold CULLEN William Homer DEAN George DIXON
Charles Henry DOUBLEDAY Wilfrid Spencer ELLIS Richard Cornforth ENGLISH
George Herbert FOWLER Frederick Thomas GARDINER Walter Stanley GIMSON
Roby Myddleton GOTCH Donald Patrick Clarke GRANT Everard Francis Sale HANDFORD
Henry Basil Strutt HANDFORD James HEMINGWAY Ralph Eustace HEMINGWAY
Francis Joseph HICKING George Graham HICKING Harold Augustus HODGES
Charles Morley HOUFTON William Henry HUNSTONE Henry Archer JOHNSTONE
John Gordon JOHNSTONE William McCall JOHNSTONE Patrick Joseph KENT
Alfred Henry LONGDEN Bernard McCRAITH George Henry Reginald MELLERS
Reginald John Allen PALMER Denis Fillingham PARR Harold Whitt PELL
Samuel PILKINGTON Richard Goodwin PYATT Arthur Percival PYCROFT
Samuel Boyd QUIBELL Gervase Thorpe SPENDLOVE Harvey STAUNTON
Ernest William Rokeby STEPHENSON Frederic Herbert TALBOT James Knowles TURPIN
Harold WARD John Crosby WARREN
World War 2
Wilton Pole ALLSEBROOK Harold John Vincent ASHWORTH Walter George Swan BENZIE
Robin Neville Benedict BROOKER Douglas Arthur BURGASS Frank FREEMAN
Arthur Henry GREENWOOD John Vinter GURTEEN John Horner HARGREAVES
Joseph Stanley JARVIS Thomas Roland JUCKES Arthur William KIDSON
John LANDER Geoffrey Phelps LONGFIELD Edwin William LOVEGROVE
Denys Keith Turney MONSARRAT Ian Lennard MOULD Gavin Newzam NICHOLSON
Alexander Sergeevich OBOLENSKY Frank Redgate PIGGIN James Anderson PITCAIRN-HILL
Gordon Ernest PRICE Joseph SAXON Basil Victor Hennessy TWEEDIE
James Tansley WESTON Robert Michael WHITTY