Jock Wemyss
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22 May 1893
| Born | Andrew Wemyss 22 May 1893 Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 21 January 1974 (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew "Jock" Wemyss (pronounced "Weemz") (22 May 1893 in Galashiels – 21 January 1974 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union player, who played at prop. Wemyss lost one of his eyes in World War I, but continued to play after the war (games were suspended during the conflict). In his memoires John M. Bannerman wrote "When my International Career began in 1921, the immediate post-war sides had been made up of old salts and old soldiers like Jock Wemyss, Finlay Kennedy, Charlie Usher and A.T. Sloan- men who would have played scores of Internationals had they not been fighting the greater battles of the First War. Wemyss to me is the symbol of the Scottish forward, a man who in his play, his written commentaries on the game and his patriotic enthusiasm epitomises all that is best in the spirit of rugby"[2]
