CharlesTimms

Australia-born Charles Gordon Timms only arrived on these isles to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but still played ten times for Dr Tommy Smyth’s 1910 British & Irish Lions on their Tour of South Africa.

Timms is one of the few Lions to be selected without being capped for a home nation, while he never won a Test cap for the Tourists.

Instead he played ten provincial games, scoring tries against Transvaal Country Districts, Pretoria and Border.

Timms – who was a centre by trade – played club rugby for Edinburgh University and was one of three Scottish-based players on the 1910 Tour.

He would go on to have a distinguished military career – as a medic – and is one of four men to have been honoured with the Military Cross on four separate occasions, all of which were during World War One and for attending to men under heavy fire.