Background
David James MacMyn was born on 18 February 1903 at Kirkcudbright the son of a doctor.
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David MacMyn
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He was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy, then Fettes College from 1916 where he was assigned to Glencorse House.
Career
He also practiced as a surgeon. He took the Bachelor with honours in 1924 before studying medicine at King"s College Hospital, London. MacMyn made his international debut on 24 January 1925 at Inverleith in the Scotland vs France match.
Of the 11 matches he played for his national side he was on the winning side on 10 occasions.
He played his final match for Scotland on 2 January 1928 at Colombes in the France vs Scotland match. His club career had seen him play for London Scottish Football Club and King"s College Hospital Reconstruction Finance Corporation. After his playing career he remained involved in rugby and from 1958 to 1959 served as President of the Scottish Rugby Union.
Foreign many years he was also a Scottish selector. In 1928 he graduated Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at King"s College Hospital.
In 1932 he obtained a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship in surgery, and he studied neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.
He returned to London eighteen months later and having had difficulty in qualifying for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, he accepted a partnership in a West End general practice abandoning a career in neurosurgery. After his military career during and just after the Second World War he joined his father in his long-established general practice at Kirkcudbright. MacMyn was in the Territorial Army and in 1928 became a Territorial Royal Army Medical Corps officer
By September 1939 he had reached the rank of major and at the beginning of the Second World War was posted to a field ambulance in the 52nd (Lowland) Division, which he commanded soon afterwards.
The division landed at Street Malo and re-embarked at Cherbourg ten days later. The division then trained in Scotland for mountain warfare and in 1944 crossed the channel once more.
David was mentioned in dispatches for services in north-west Europe. He was ADMS to the 49th (WR) Division and so was with the occupation forces in Germany.
Afterwards he served with the 3rd Division in Egypt and Palestine and in 1947 was demobilised with the rank of full colonel.
MacMyn was known to enjoy a number of hobbies including golf, troutfishing, rereading the classics, and his garden, in which he grew roses that were much admired. He retired in 1965 and maintained an active lifestyle, enjoying golf and bridge. In addition, his association with rugby never waned and even after a slight stroke in December 1976 he accompanied a Scottish touring team to Japan in July 1977.
Achievements
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He then went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge where his rugby ability developed at Fettes won him his blue as a fresher at Cambridge. In 1927, he was chosen to captain the British Isles tour to Argentina which was won by four Tests to nil. Just a fortnight before his death he was at Murrayfield to watch the Calcutta Cup.
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United Kingdom