Ernest Caddell
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| Full name | Ernest Duncan Caddell | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 18 November 1881 Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 May 1942 (aged 60) Farnham, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Ernest Duncan Caddell (18 November 1881 — 27 May 1942) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Caddell attended Portora Royal School and Trinity College Dublin.[1]
Caddell was a Dublin University and Wanderers halfback, capped 13 times for Ireland from 1904 to 1908, often forming a halfback combination with Thomas Robinson. He scored two tries in a win over England at Lansdowne Road in 1907.[2]
A British Army officer, Caddell served with the Field Ambulance in World War I, during which he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded with the Military Cross.[3] He had several overseas postings over the next two decades before retiring in 1936, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.[1]