James Greenlees

Dr. James Robertson Campbell Greenlees FRSE DSO & Bar (14 December 1878 – 16 May 1951)[1] was a Scottish rugby union footballer, physician and teacher.

[3] While still playing at Cambridge, Greenlees was selected to represent Scotland in the 1900 Home Nations Championship, facing Ireland on 24 February.

After the disappointment of the previous campaign, Scotland responded by winning all three matches, taking the Championship title and the Triple Crown.

In the final match of the Championship, played at Richmond against England, Greenlees was given the captaincy after regular captain Mark Coxon Morrison was unavailable.

[7] With the outbreak of World War I, Greenlees joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1914 as a temporary lieutenant[8] and was posted to France.

On 12 August 1915 he was promoted to temporary captain[9] in the 22nd Field Ambulance; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) that same year, the citation for which reads as follows: For his great gallantry and devotion to duty at Neuve Chapelle from 10th to 14th March, 1915, in attending on the wounded under very heavy fire.

Originally brought in as temporary cover after the untimely death of his predecessor, another Scotland international rugby union player Allan Smith, Greenlees became a permanent appointment.