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Fielding knew Huggan bravery warranted a Victoria Cross

RUGBY famously honours four Victoria Cross winners for conspicuous bravery among its former internationals – England’s Arthur Harrison and the Irish trio of Tom Crean, Frederick Harvey and Robert Johnston – but many have felt there should have been a couple more.
Blair Mayne always gets a mention in that respect and the other Victoria Cross that ‘got away’ is Lieutenant James Laidlaw Huggan, a fast and clever wing with London Scottish and one of those pictured in the 1914 team group.
Huggan, from Jedburgh, was a medic and surgeon who graduated from Edinburgh Un...

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