George Ledingham
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| Full name | George Alexander Ledingham | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 March 1890 Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 November 1978 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||
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Colonel George Alexander Ledingham (6 March 1890 – 8 November 1978) was a British Army officer and Scottish international rugby union player.
Ledingham was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School.[1]
A forward, Ledingham played for Aberdeen and was capped for Scotland in a 1913 Five Nations match against France in Paris. He also had the distinction of captaining United Services against the touring 1917 Springboks.[2]
Ledingham was a commander with the Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry during World War II. He was decorated with a D.S.O. in 1940, On the liberation of South Brabant in 1944, Ledingham served as commander of their Military Government and was later secretary general of the United Nations War Crimes Commission.[3]