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24 September 2017

Memorial to honour rugby’s fallen heroes

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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EXACTLY 100 years ago the War to end all Wars was raging at its fiercest at the Battle of Passchendaele and it was with that thought in mind that the first stage of an ambitious project to commemorate the part of rugby in that conflict came to fruition last weekend.
The WW1 Rugby Players Memorial, designed by former France captain Jean Pierre Rives, was unveiled last Saturday in the heart of the battlefields of the Chemin des Dames in France while there were other ceremoni...

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