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| ru_nationalcaps = 2 | ru_nationalpoints = 0 | module = ---- }} Arthur "Jack" Verge (12 February 1880 – 8 September 1915) was a rugby union player, who represented , New South Wales and Sydney University. Playing fullback, Verge won both his caps for Australia against a touring British Isles team, in Sydney, on 2 July 1904. Although he was relatively light compared with other contenders for his position, he was repeatedly praised for his tackling, which was "a treat to witness". Verge went to The King's School, Parramatta, studied medicine at Sydney University, and was in residence at St Paul's College from 1900 to 1904. After graduating, he practiced as a specialist in skin disease. In 1907, he won a fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was commissioned captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps of the First Australian Imperial Force in October 1914 attached to the 6th Light Horse Regiment as its medical officer. He embarked from Sydney for Alexandria, Egypt, in December 1914. From there he was deployed to Gallipoli in May 1915, where he contracted dysentery. He was evacuated to Egypt, where he died in September 1915. ==Early life== Arthur "Jack" Verge was the second son of Austral and Matilda Verge of Hampden Hall, Kempsey, New South Wales. He attended the King's School, Parramatta, where many of Australia's rugby players were schooled. From there he went to study medicine at St Paul's College, University of Sydney in 1900.〔 He passed his first year of medicine in 1901, and graduated in 1904. His older brother, John, was born in 1877 and died in 1939. His sister, Mary Elizabeth, was born in 1879.〔New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages〕 He had a younger brother, Cuthbert, who also played rugby for Sydney University and New South Wales and went on to become a doctor, specialising in ear, nose and throat. He survived the First World War, and died at the age of 46 in 1929 of blood poisoning.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Verge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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