John George Will, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John George Will

Scottish rugby union player

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1892

Place of Birth: Merton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1917

Profession: rugby union player

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Lt.
John George Will (22 September 1892 – 25 March 1917), nicknamed the "Flying Scot," was a Scottish rugby union player and Royal Flying Corps officer killed in World War I.Will was born in Merton, Surrey, the son of Scottish physician John Kennedy Will (from Cullen, Moray) and Ella Ryng Will (from St Helens, Lancashire).
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1905–11) and then Downing College, Cambridge, where he played for Cambridge University RFC.
He had seven caps for Scotland in 1912–14, and he was dubbed the "Flying Scot" for his playing style.
Will had played in the last match before the war, the Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith against England, alongside James Huggan who died in 1914, and Frederick Harding Turner and Eric Templeton Young, who died in 1915.Will joined the Honourable Artillery Company when the war began in August 1914 and was sent to France the following month.
The following April he was commissioned into the Worcestershire Hussars and then switched to the Leinster Regiment the next month.
In August 1915, he was wounded in action near Hooge, Belgium.
He joined the Royal Flying Corps that November and earned his pilot's certificate in England in June 1916.
He remained in England as an instructor in Dover before returning to the front in February 1917 with the No.
29 Squadron.