Rugby World Cup

Boyau, the wing ace who ruled the skies

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The Rugby Paper Team
16 September 2018

THE 100th anniversaries are coming quick and fast as we head towards November 11 and exactly 100 years since the end of World War 1, but few will be as poignant as the death of French rugby star Maurice Boyau on this day – September 16 – in 1918.
Boyau – born in Algeria and a player with Dax, Bordeaux and Racing – captained France twice before the War in which he emerged as one of France’s greatest fighter aces with 35 ‘victories’.
Originally a career Army man, Boyau, below, switched to the emerging French airforce and flew with the famed Edcadril...

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