Phil Waller

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Phil Waller
Rugby union career
Full name	Phillip Dudley Waller^[1]
Date of birth	(1889-01-28)28 January 1889
Place of birth	Bath, Somerset, England
Date of death	14 December 1917(1917-12-14) (aged 28)
Place of death	Arras, France
School	Carmarthen Intermediate School
Playing career
Position	Forwards
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
1906–1910 ?	Newport RFC Monmouthshire Somerset Golden Lions
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1908–1910 1910	Wales^[2] British Isles	6 3	(0) (0)

Phil Waller (28 January 1889 – 14 December 1917) was an English-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Newport and Johannesburg. He won six caps for Wales and also played for the British Isles in their 1910 tour of South Africa.

Rugby career

Waller joined Newport in 1906 and represented the club on 79 appearances. While playing in Britain he represented two county teams, Somerset and Monmouthshire. In 1908 Waller turned out for Newport against the touring Australian team.

Waller made his debut for Wales against the same touring Australian team he faced with Newport. The next year he was selected to play in all three matches of the 1909 Home Nations Championship. In his first Home Nations match against England he was joined by fellow Newport player Jack Jones and Swansea's Jack Bancroft. Wales won all their matches and won the Triple Crown. Wales and Waller also faced France during 1909, and after beating them Wales also won the unofficical Grand Slam. Waller played once more for Wales, again against France in a record breaking game in 1910.

Waller was chosen in 1910 to represent the British Isles team in their tour of South Africa. Waller was chosen to play in all three tests, and after the tournament was over, elected to stay in South Africa and played for Johannesburg's Golden Lions. After the outbreak of World War I, Waller enlisted in the South Africa Artillery Regiment. He was killed by shellfire at Arras in North France in 1917.^[3]

International matches played

Wales^[4]

Australia 1908
England 1909
France 1909, 1910
Ireland 1909
Scotland 1909

British Isles
South Africa 1910, 1910, 1910

Bibliography

Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

References

↑ Newport RFC player profiles
↑ Welsh Rugby Union player profiles
↑ Rugby Heroes who went to War BBC Online Matthew Ferris, November 2008
↑ Smith (1980), pg 472.

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1910 South Africa tour

Forwards	Smyth (Newport) (c.) Tyrrell (Queen's University) Smith (Richmond) Waller (Newport) Reid-Kerr (Greenock Wanderers) Stevenson (St. Andrews University) Speirs (Watsonians) Crean (Liverpool) Jarman (Newport) Piper (Cork Constitution) Robertson (Edinburgh University) Pillman (Blackheath) Ashby (Queen's College) Handford (Kersal) Richards (Bristol) Webb (Abertillery)

Backs	Williams (Newport) Baker (Newport) Plummer (Newport) Neale (Bristol) Foster (City of Derry) Timms (Edinburgh University) Jones (Pontypool) Spoors (Bristol) Wood (Leicester) Humphreys (Tynedale) Isherwood (Cheshire and Sale) Milroy (Watsonians)

Coach	Rees and Cail

v t e Welsh rugby players killed in WWI

Geen B Lewis Perrett L Phillips Pritchard Taylor EJR Thomas H Thomas Waller Watts Westacott J Williams RG Williams

Persondata
Name	Waller, Phil
Alternative names
Short description	English rugby union player
Date of birth	28 January 1889
Place of birth	Bath, Somerset, England
Date of death	14 December 1917
Place of death	Arras, France

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