Maj.Roland Elphinstone GordonMC (22 January 1883 – 30 August 1918) was a Scottish rugby union player and British Army officer who was killed in World War I.[1]
Gordon was the son of civil servant George Dalrymple Gordon and Georgina Meredith Williams Gordon, of "Alwyns," Teignmouth, Devon. He was born in Selangor, Straits Settlements, Malaya, where his father worked in the colonial government's irrigation department.[2]
His rugby career was interrupted in 1913, when he was posted to India. After the war began, he was sent to Mesopotamia, where he was seriously wounded. During his recovery at Exeter, he coached the Royal Artillery cadets. He also played for the Cadet XV in 1916–17, playing against the Army Service Corps XV before returning to the front in 1917.[2]