Richard Garnons Williams Rugby player
Not to be confused with the rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s Dickie WilliamsNot to be confused with the Australian rugby league footballer Richard Williams (rugby league)Richard Davies Garnons Williams (15 June 1856 – 25 September 1915) was a Welsh international rugby union and forward who played club rugby for Brecon and Newport. Williams is notable for playing in the very first Wales international rugby union match in 1881.He became an officer in the British Army in 1876, and retired from regular service in 1892, though he continued to serve in a voluntary capacity until 1906. Already aged 58 at the outbreak of the First World War, he rejoined the army and was killed in action in 1915.
