Roland Gordon

Maj. Roland Elphinstone Gordon MC (22 January 1883 – 30 August 1918) was a Scottish rugby union player and British Army officer who was killed in World War I.

He was born in Selangor, Straits Settlements, Malaya, where his father worked in the colonial government's irrigation department.

In 1911, he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich where he was captain of the rugby XV.

He played for Royal Artillery RFC and was capped for Scotland against France, Wales and Ireland in 1913.

[4] His name is listed as one of the 133 rugby players killed in the Great War on the memorial at Fromelles in north France.