{{short description|South African rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use South African English|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Adam Burdett | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|9|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Oudtshoorn, Cape Colony | death_date = {{death date and age|1918|11|4|1882|9|20|df=y}} | death_place = Roberts Heights, Pretoria, Transvaal Province<ref name=cwgc /> | height = {{convert|1.8|m|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|80.3|kg|abbr=on}} | school = Diocesan College | university = | relatives = | occupation = | ru_currentposition = | ru_currentteam = | ru_position =

| amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = | years1 = | clubs1 = Western Province | apps1 = | points1 = | ru_clubupdate = | ru_provinceyears1 = | ru_province1 = | ru_provinceapps1 = | ru_provincepoints1 =

| repyears1 = 1906 | repteam1 = South Africa | repcaps1 = 2 | reppoints1 = 0 | ru_ntupdate = | ru_sevensnationalyears1 = | ru_sevensnationalteam1 = | ru_sevensnationalcomp1 = | website = }} '''Adam Francis Burdett''' (20 August 1882 – 4 November 1918) was a South African rugby union player from Oudtshoorn. He was killed in World War I, while serving as a captain in the South African Service Corps.<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/126661 Commonwealth War Graves database]</ref> He took part in the 1906–07 South Africa rugby union tour, the original 'Springbok' tour. He was awarded two caps in November 1906, one against {{nrut|Scotland}} and one against {{nrut|Ireland}}. He played for Western Province. He was 5 feet 10&nbsp;inches, and weighed 12 stone 9 pounds.

==See also== * List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/126661 Commonwealth War Graves database] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131216155221/http://www.genslin.us/bokke/SARugby.html Springbok Hall of Fame]

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