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At the Battle of Loos, on 27th September, he was killed when leading his battalion on an attack on the German trenches. One of his soldiers wrote: ‘We could not have had a better, braver officer. He was with us all the time in the front trench and looked after us as well as he could. No man could have done better’. At the age of 59, Richard Garnons-Williams, double international, was the oldest of the 13 Welsh rugby internationals killed in the Great War. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial and in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst.
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