KEIGHLEY rugby players have paid tribute to a former player killed in the Bali bombings 12 years ago.

They arranged for flowers to be laid on the pitch where Dave Kent played rugby with the Singapore Cricket Club until his death.

Members of the Singapore club place similar tributes on the pitch every year for several team members killed in the atrocity.

They were delighted players from Keighley Rugby Union Football Club got involved with this year’s ceremony to honour their own fallen son.

Dave was a leading member of the Keighley Rugby Union Football Club team during the 1980s.

The Bali bombings occurred in October 2002 in the tourist district of Kula on the Indonesian island of Bali.

The attack killed 202 people, including 27 Britons, and eight members of the Singapore Cricket Club, who were playing rugby in Bali as part of a 17-man team.

Dave, who was 41 at the time of his death, had been managing director for multinational company Hayward Filtration at its Singapore office.

The Keighley team got involved with this year’s flower placing ceremony to remember those who died after a Singapore Cricket Club member, Ben Wheeler, got talking to Keighley club official, Martin Whitcomb, during a rugby dinner in the UK. Martin asked Ben to lay some flowers on behalf of him and the rest of the Keighley club to remember Dave.

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Ben later wrote: “It went down great with many of the boys. They were touched by the fact someone from outside Singapore had made an effort to remember one of their guys.”

KRUFC official, Bob Swift, described Dave as a “life and soul of the party type”.

David Hopkinson, who played rugby union in Keighley with Dave in the late 1980s, said: “He was unbelievably popular. He’s still missed.

“He was a really good rugby player. He was at the club for about seven or eight years. He did a couple of years at university then his family moved to Australia.”

The cricket club, in its written tribute to the Bali victims, describes Dave as “perhaps the hardest player” to ever walk onto a Singapore rugby pitch.

The statement adds: “Dave was always an inspiration for his fellow teammates, and was justly rewarded with the position of first-team captain in 2002.”