Samuel Lees Redfern
1886 – 2nd August 1917. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (5th Battalion)
Samuel Lees Redfern was a former Manchester FC player who died during the Great War. Originally from Hale, Redfern joined the Public Schools Battalion as soon as the war began. A year later, he was in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, commissioned as a lieutenant.
Redfern survived the Somme unscathed, and became an acting captain, but died of wounds on the 2nd August 1917.
Redfern is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Grave IF5
SOURCES
World Rugby Museum
Manchester Evening News