The 1908 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was the seventh tour by a British Isles team and the fourth to New Zealand and Australia. The tour is often referred to as the Anglo-Welsh Tour
The Anglo-Welsh touring party after arriving in Wellington in 1908. Manager George Harnett is seated in the centre, with captain Arthur Harding holding a rugby ball to Harnett's right
The first test v New Zealand on 6 June
Cartoon by William Blomfield, published by the New Zealand Observer following the tour's first test match. It depicts the touring Anglo-Welsh as a "dilapidated lion" following their 32–5 defeat to New Zealand
John Lewis Williams was a Welsh international wing who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club. A three times Triple Crown winner, out of seventeen appearances for Wales he was on the losing
1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia
…George Harnett Full-backs John Dyke (Penarth) E. J. "John" Jackett (Falmouth/Leicester) Three-Quarters Fred Chapman (Westoe) Reggie Gibbs (Cardiff) Johnnie Williams (Cardiff) Rowland Griffiths (Newport) Jack Jones (Pontypool) James Phillips Jones (Guy's Hospital) Pat McEvedy (Guy's Hospital) Henry Vassall (Blackheath…
Williams in Cardiff jersey