TOMORROW – St George’s Day – is the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Arthur Leyland Harrison, the only England rugby cap ever to win the Victoria Cross and one of only four Rugby internationals worldwide to receive the ultimate award for courage.
Harrison, who was posthumously awarded the VC for his part in the Zeebrugge raid of 1918, was a promising England forward who had made a big impression in his two appearances in the 1914 Five Nations Championship. He played in the back row against Ireland and then moved into the second row against France, when England r...