Eric Templeton Young

{{Short description|Scottish rugby union player}} {{for|the Scotland international rugby union Centre and later mining engineer|Eric Young (rugby union)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Eric Templeton Young | image = | caption = | birth_name = Eric Templeton Young | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1892|5|14}} | birth_place = Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1915|6|28|1892|5|14}} | death_place = | height = | weight = | position = | repteam1 = {{nrut|Scotland}} | repyears1 = 1914 | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = | ru_ntupdate = | years1 = | apps1 = | points1 = | provinceyears1 = | provinceapps1 = | province1 = | provincepoints1 = | amatteam1 = Oxford University RFC | amatteam2 = Glasgow Academicals RFC | amatyears1 = | coachteams1 = | coachyears1 = | school = Cargilfield Preparatory School<br>Fettes College | university = Magdalen College, Oxford }}

Capt. '''Eric Templeton Young''' (14 May 1892 – 28 June 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player and British Army officer who was killed in the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.<ref>Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'', p. 107. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}})</ref>

Young was educated in Edinburgh at Cargilfield Preparatory School and Fettes College. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he played for the university. He also played for Glasgow Academy and the Glasgow Academicals. He had one cap for {{nrut|Scotland}} against {{nrut|England}} in March 1914, the final international game on British soil before the war began.<ref name="touch">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War |date=2014 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=9781781590874 |page=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMo7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 |accessdate=24 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Young joined the Territorial Army in 1911. He was promoted to captain when the war began and sent to Turkey with the 8th Battalion of The Cameronians. Two weeks after he arrived in Gallipoli, he was killed in the first day of the Battle of Gully Ravine.<ref name="touch"/> He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.<ref>{{CWGC|id=1564448|name=Young, Eric Templeton |access-date=23 June 2018}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.scotsman.com/sport/an-entire-team-wiped-out-by-the-great-war-1-768537 "An entire team wiped out by the Great War"]. ''The Scotsman'', 6 November 2009

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