Birth name | Ronald Francis Simson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 6 September 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 14 September 1914 | (aged 24)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Aisne, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ronald Francis Simson (6 September 1880 – 14 September 1914) was a Scottish rugby union player for Scotland.[1] Simson was the first Scottish rugby international to die in the First World War.[2]