Aaron Rees

Aaron Rees
Date of birth(1886-08-02)2 August 1886
Place of birthMaesteg, Glamorgan, Wales
Date of death22 January 1950(1950-01-22) (aged 63)
Place of deathSwansea, Wales
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing-forward
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1919 Wales 1 (0)

Aaron Rees (2 August 1886 — 22 January 1950) was a Welsh international rugby union player.[1]

Born in Maesteg, Rees captained his hometown club Maesteg RFC and gained a single Wales cap, as one of their forwards in the one-off match against the 1919 New Zealand Army team in Swansea.[2]

Rees was a mine worker at Navigation Colliery in his younger days and later worked in construction.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ They Played Rugby for Wales (2023 edition). Eric Lemon. 11 May 2024. ISBN 0645362662.
  2. ^ "Wales and New Zealand". Western Mail. 14 April 1919.
  3. ^ "Late Mr. A. Rees, Pyle and Maesteg". The Glamorgan Gazette. 3 February 1950.