Charles Grieve

Major Charles Frederick Grieve (1 October 1913 in Manila, Philippines – 1 June 2000 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He was also a cricketer for Guernsey and Oxford University. He became a career soldier.

Early life Grieve was born in Manila in the Philippines, where his father worked for the family rubber exporting company.

Rugby Union career Grieve played club rugby with Oxford University. In the first trial match his team was listed as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

He was supposed to play for the Scotland Probables in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He turned out for the Scotland Probables side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938.

International career Grieve was capped for against Wales in 1935. He was also on the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa. Late in the final Test in Durban, he scored a drop goal to give the Lions victory.

At Oxford University, he represented the university cricket club in a single first-class match against Derbyshire in 1936. In 1934, he had played for Guernsey against the Marylebone Cricket Club in a non-first-class fixture. Opening the batting in Guernsey's first-innings, he scored a century.

Military career In World War II, Grieve served in the King's African Rifles in Abyssinia and the Far East. After the war, he transferred to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and in 1952 went as a company commander to the fighting in Korea. He later served in Gibraltar, and served the rest of his career looking after the physical training of soldiers.

Personal life Grieve married Joy Ellis in 1946; they had five children. Joy died in 1997; he died in 2000, aged 86.