Francis Casement

Major general Francis Casement (29 October 1881 – 14 August 1967) was an Irish international rugby union player.

He played rugby for Dublin University and gained three Ireland caps as a centre three-quarter in the 1906 Home Nations, which included a win over England at Leicester.

[1] Casement served as a brevet lieutenant colonel on the Western Front and in Gallipoli with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I.

[2] After the war, Casement spent time in Mauritius as the island's principal medical officer and on his return home served as a director with Army Medical Services.

[3] He was named honorary surgeon to King George VI shortly before retiring to Ballycastle and in 1951 became the High Sheriff of Antrim.