Jasper Brett
Full name | Jasper Thomas Brett | ||
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Date of birth | 8 August 1895 | ||
Place of birth | Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Ireland | ||
Date of death | 4 February 1917 | ||
Place of death | Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland | ||
Rugby union career | |||
Playing career | |||
Position | Wing | ||
Professional / senior clubs | |||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
Monkstown | |||
National team(s) | |||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
1914 | Ireland | 1 |
Jasper Thomas Brett (1895–1917) was an Irish rugby international. He won one cap against Wales in 1914.
He served during the First World War in the British Army as Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He died at Dalkey, Dublin, in February 1917, aged 21, and was buried at Deans Grange Cemetery.[1]
See also
- List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War
References
- ↑ CWGC Casualty Record.
- Jasper Brett at Scrum.com
- IRFU Profile
- Jones, Stephen (1994). Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1994-95. Headline. ISBN 0-7472-7850-4.