Lt. George Harold Pugh (16 January 1890 – 5 September 1916) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Pugh, a lock, was born in Glebe, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, The Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p.15.
Pugh enlisted in the British army in 1912 and trained for six weeks in Liverpool, and joined the Liverpool Regiment as a second lieutenant. He joined the Australian Expeditionary Force in 1915. He was killed in action in the First World War while serving with the 4th Battalion of the Australian Infantry. He is buried at the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground in Ypres.
See also List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
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