The Scottish War Memorials Project

DerekR · Last edited by DerekR on Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hawick Rugby Club Roll of Honour

Now located in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick.

UKNIWM Ref: 44285

Of the one hundred and fifty seven members of Hawick Rugby Football Club who fought in the Great War, thirty six were killed or died of their wounds.

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DerekR · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

The Roll of Honour consists of a hand written list of the members of Hawick Rugby Club who served during the Great War.
I was fortunate enough to have a small part in its rescue from obscurity about 8 years ago.
For some reason it had been removed from the Hawick Clubrooms and put into storage under the main stand many many years ago.
It was only in conversation with one of the oldest club supporters that he remembered a Roll of Honour hanging in the clubrooms and we instigated a search.
The Roll of Honour was subsequently found, cleaned up and donated to the local museum. But how it came to be "lost" in the first place to possibly one of the proudest rugby clubs in the country remains a mystery to me.
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DerekR · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

Walter Sutherland, "Wattie Suddie", Hawick & Scotland rugby legend killed by a stray shell at Hulloch on his 28th birthday.

‘It is hard to realise that one who so recently had walked the streets of the old Border town, who was held in such affection by its youth, whose bright smile and cheery nature were like rays of sunshine, had gone and would never again adorn its peaceful life. The memory of such a life, with so many just claims to remembrance, will always stand out as a permanent inspiration and a bright example to all who may follow the Rugby game’.

‘He was made of the stamp of which heroes are made’.

Name: SUTHERLAND, WALTER RIDDELL
Initials: W R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 04/10/1918
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Isabella Riddell Sutherland, of the Imperial Hotel, Hawick, Roxburghshire. Received 13 caps playing for the Scottish International rugby team, between 1910 and 1914.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 22.
Cemetery: HOUCHIN BRITISH CEMETERY

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There must be a place under the sun where hearts of olden glory grow young .....