He was educated at Teviot Grove Academy before training to be a sanitary inspector in Hawick.
He also played cricket and football and was a champion runner, winning the Scottish Borders title at multiple distances.
[5] He gained 13 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1910 and 1914 and was regarded as the best Scottish wing threequarter of his day.
Second Lieutenant Sutherland was killed in France on 4 October 1918, aged 27, just five weeks before the armistice.
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