Francis Eckley Oakeley (5 February 1891 – 1 December 1914) was an English

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player. Having been educated at

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, he later played as a scrum-half and won four caps for England between 1913 and 1914. He was killed during the

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, when the submarine he was serving aboard, HMS D2, disappeared.

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