Times cricket correspondent wrote: Rugby union career Dillon was a fine rugby union player, playing as a centre for Oxford University and Blackheath. He won four international caps for England, playing against Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the 1904 Home Nations Championship and against Wales in the 1905 Championship. He also represented Harlequins, Barbarians and Kent. Military career and later life Dillon enlisted in September 1914, being commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in the early months of World War I, eventually reaching the rank of captain and serving as a company commander in the 2/4th battalion. He served during the war at Gallipoli, in the Senussi campaign in Egypt and in Palestine, where he took part in the First Battle of Gaza. Dillon was wounded during the Stalemate in Southern Palestine and was involved in the Southern Palestine Offensive and the Battle of Jerusalem in late 1917. He was transferred to the Economic Division in Cairo in late December 1917, serving there in the Intelligence Corps for the remainder of the war. Dillon died in 1941 aged 60 at Totteridge in Hertfordshire. References External links 1881 births 1941 deaths Intelligence Corps officers Kent cricketers Kent cricket captains Oxford University cricketers Gentlemen cricketers Blackheath F.C. players English rugby union players England international rugby union players People educated at Rugby School Alumni of University College, Oxford Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I People from Penge Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers North v South cricketers English cricketers London County cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers P. F. Warner's XI cricketers Military personnel from Kent Rugby union players from Kent R. A. Bennett's XI cricketers Kent County RFU players