| Full name | James Barrett | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1888-03-03)3 March 1888 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paeroa, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 August 1971(1971-08-31) (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hamilton, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
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James Barrett (3 March 1888 — 31 August 1971) was a New Zealand rugby union international.
Barrett, known as "Buster", was born in Paeroa, where he attended St Joseph's Catholic School.[1] He moved to Auckland as a teenager to become an apprentice wheelwright and played his rugby for the city's Marist club.[2][3]
A loose forward, Barrett was capped twice by the All Blacks in 1913, as a flanker for the 2nd and 3rd Tests against the touring Australians. He made one further All Blacks appearance, an uncapped match on the 1914 tour of Australia.[3]
Barrett served with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt during World War I.[3]
