James Pearson (rugby union)

James Pearson (24 February 1889 – 22 May 1915) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

At the First World War, Pearson joined the Royal Scots as a soldier; he was killed in Second Battle of Ypres.

Following the Second Battle of Ypres, he was shot and killed by a sniper while going for water in Sanctuary Wood in May 1915.

[4] He is buried at Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (plot VE 27) but also remembered on the special memorial to the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War, at Fromelles in north France.

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