Walter Sutherland (rugby union)

Walter Sutherland

Birth name	Walter Riddell Sutherland
Date of birth	(1890-11-19)19 November 1890
Place of birth	Hawick, Scotland
Date of death	4 October 1918(1918-10-04) (aged 27)
Place of death	Hulluch, France
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Hawick () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1910 South of Scotland () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1910-14 Scotland 13 (12)

Walter Riddell Sutherland (19 October 1890 – 4 October 1918), also known as Wattie Suddie, was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Early life

Sutherland was the son of Alexander and Isabella Sutherland of the Imperial Hotel in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He was educated at Teviot Grove Academy before training to be a sanitary inspector in Hawick. He also played cricket and football and was a champion runner, winning the Scottish Borders title at multiple distances.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Hawick RFC.

Provincial career

Sutherland played for the South of Scotland in 1910.

International career

He gained 13 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1910 and 1914 and was regarded as the best Scottish wing threequarter of his day.

Military career

The outbreak of the First World War put end to his rugby career, and he served with the Lothians and Border Horse, later the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and finally the Seaforth Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Sutherland was killed in France on 4 October 1918, aged 27, just five weeks before the armistice. He is buried at the Houchin British Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais.

External links

• "An entire team wiped out by the Great War". The Scotsman, 6 November 2009