Full name | Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 March 1922 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | St Thomas, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 January 1991 | (aged 68)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Dover, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
Hosking was born in Exeter and educated at Cheltenham College. [1]
A captain with the Royal Marines, Hosking played rugby for the Navy, as well as Plymouth club Devonport Services. [2]
Hosking was capped five times by England as a lock in the 1949 and 1950 Five Nations campaigns. It was later discovered that he had been playing with a broken back through his England career, which required surgery. [3]
Full name | Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 March 1922 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | St Thomas, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 January 1991 | (aged 68)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Dover, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
Hosking was born in Exeter and educated at Cheltenham College. [1]
A captain with the Royal Marines, Hosking played rugby for the Navy, as well as Plymouth club Devonport Services. [2]
Hosking was capped five times by England as a lock in the 1949 and 1950 Five Nations campaigns. It was later discovered that he had been playing with a broken back through his England career, which required surgery. [3]