Last year the Scottish Rugby Union presented retrospective caps to the descendants of players who had represented their country in the Services and Victory internationals. One of those posthumous recipients was Captain  J.A.D.Thom for a game played against England at Leicester - Scotland won 18 -11 - in February1945. Last week Jake Thom’s son Michael, whose home is in St Lucia in the West Indies, visited Mansfield Park to present his father’s Scottish cap, number 1163, to Hawick RFC, the Club for which he played in the 1930s. Jake’s brother David also played for Hawick and for Scotland and was President of the SRU in season 1965-1966. Michael was gifted in return a copy of “Voices of Hawick Rugby” and an HRFC 150th anniversary tie. Michael’s great-grandfather James Thom was one of the co-founders of Hawick Archaeological Society and Society Past Presidents Evelyn Jackson, Brian Tait and Duncan Taylor were present and gave Michael a Society 150th anniversary tie and copies of the Society’s Transactions. His Aunt Bella Thom, for many years a Hawick High School Science teacher, will be remembered by pupils of a certain vintage.