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Ray Giles

rugby union player (1961-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ45776704 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raymond Giles (born 15 January 1961) is a former Welsh and Aberavon RFC and Cardiff RFC rugby union player.

Career

He started his club career playing Kenfig Hill RFC until 1983, when he moved to Aberavon RFC, for whom he scored 11 points. Between 1987 and 1989 he played for Cardiff RFC, with 58 appearances and scoring 36 points, before returning to Aberavon in 1989 until ending his career in the 1991–92 season.

Giles' first cap for Wales was during a match against Romania, in Bucharest, on 12 November 1983. He was also part of the 1987 Rugby World Cup Welsh squad, where he played only the match against Canada in Invercargill, which was his last match for Wales.

Currently, Giles is a patron for Prostate Cymru, a Welsh organisation to raise prostate cancer awareness.

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The public source identifies “Ray Giles” as rugby union player (1961-). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Giles, rugby and union.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1983, 1987, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Giles, rugby and union providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q45776704. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1983, 1987 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ray Giles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.