Final Wicket
Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War
Published on 30. July 2015
400 pages
978-1-4738-6419-1 (ISBN)
Description
While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- A.E.J. Collins
- 1914
- Archer Windsor-Clive, 25-8-14
- Evelyn Bradford, 14-9-14
- Arthur Byng, 14-9-14
- Leonard Slater, 14- 9-14
- William Payne-Gallwey, 14-9-14
- Mark Mackenzie, 25-9-14
- Wilfred Brownlee, 12-10-14
- Walter Parke, 13-10-14
- William Miles Kington, 20-10-14
- Harold Hippisley, 23-10-14
- William Yalland, 23-10-14
- John Thomas Gregory, 27-10-14
- Henry Anderson, 29-10-14
- Stuart Gordon, 29/31-10-14
- Ralph Hancock, 29-10-14
- Gerald Ward, 30-10-14
- William Holbech, 1-11-14
- Eustace Crawley, 2-11-14
- Bruce Manson, 4-11-14
- Arnold Nesbitt, 7-11-14
- Bernard Gordon-Lennox, 10-11-14
- William Cadogan, 12-11-14
- Geoffrey Toynbee, 15-11-14
- George Docker, 17-11-1
- Hervey Tudway, 18-11-14
- Norman Hobson, 25-11-14
- Charles Deane, 14-12-14
- Edmund Thomson, 21-12-14
- 1915
- Frederick Turner, 10-1-15
- Esme Chinnery, 18-1-15
- Arthur Lang, 25-1-15
- De Courcy Ireland, 28-1-15
- Ronald Lagden, 1-3-15
- Charles Higginbotham, 11-3-15
- Frederick Burr, 12-3-15
- Francis Townend, 29-3-15
- Henry Rosher, 14-4-15
- John Williams, 25-4-15
- Charles Backman, 25/29-4-15
- Percy Banks, 26-4-15
- George Sandeman, 26-4-15
- Bernard Brodhurst, 27-4-15
- George King Molineux, 5-5-15
- Charles Handfield, 6-5-15
- Edward Phillips, 8-5-15
- Tony Wilding, 9-5-15
- Cecil Banes-Walker, 9-5-15
- Wilfred Bird, 9-5-15
- Wilfred Curwen, 9-5-15
- John Isaac, 9-5-15
- Alan Wallace, 10-5-15
- Geoffrey Hopley, 12-5-15
- Kenneth Woodroffe, 13-5-15
- Eustace Rutter, 13-5-15
- Gordon Belcher, 16-5-15
- Frank Bingham, 22-5-15
- Francis Wilson, 24-5-15
- Edmund Marsden, 26-5-15
- Hubert Garrett, 4-6-15
- Francis Gould, 6-6-15
- Claude Mackay, 7-6-15
- Hugh Tuke, 7-6-15
- Druce Brandt, 6-7-15
- James Sutcliffe, 14-7-15
- Alan Marshal, 23-7-15
- Cecil Palmer, 26-7-15
- William Parker, 30-7-15
- Geoffrey Dowling, 30-7-15
- Leslie Davidson, 3-8-15
- Rowland Raw, 7-8-15
- Tomas Grace, 8-8-15
- Norman Street, 10-8-15
- Ronald Turner, 15-8-15
- Theodore Fowler, 17-8-15
- Maximillian Wood, 21-8-15
- Harold Wright, 14-9-15
- Hugh Montagu Butterworth, 25-9-15
- James Ryan, 25-9-15
- James Balfour-Melville, 25-9-15
- Arthur Edwards, 25-9-15
- Charles Eyre, 25-9-15
- Joseph Lynch, 25-9-15
- Guy Napier, 25-9-15
- Burnet James, 26-9-15
- Kenelm McCloughin, 26-9-15
- Geoffrey Davies, 26-9-15
- Bernard Holloway, 27-9-15
- Arthur Jaques, 27-9-15
- George Neale, 28-9-15
- Wilfred Reay, 8-10-15
- Geoffrey Wood, 13-10-15
- Ralph Hemingway, 15-10-15
- Eric Penn, 18-10-15
- John McCulloch, 21-10-15
- Francis Bacon, 31-10-15
- Frank Tuff, 5-11-15
- George Whatford, 22-11-15
- Frederick Cook, 30-11-15
- Robert William Barry, 3-12-15
- Matthew Stanly McKenzie, 8-12-15
- Gilbert Sackville, 16-12-15
- Charles Newcombe, 27-12-15
- 1916
- Sholto Douglas, 28-1-16
- Francis Roberts, 8-2-16
- Bernard Nevile, 11-2-16
- Harold Bache, 15-2-16
- Edward Campion, 25-2-16
- Frederick Hardy, 9-3-16
- Gerald Howard-Smith, 29-3-16
- Alexander Cowie, 7-4-16
- Hugo Charteris, 23-4-16
- Francis Browning, 26-4-16
- Alexander Crawford, 10-5-16
- Harry Chinnery, 28-5-16
- Cecil Abercrombie, 31-5-16
- John Matthew Murray, 31-5-16
- Charles Fisher, 31-5-16
- William Malraison, 31-5-16
- Leonard Sutton, 3-6-16
- Francis Gillespie, 18-6-16
- William Booth, 1-6-16
- William Crozier, 1-7-16
- David Kennedy, 1-7-16
- John Hellard, 2-7-16
- Cecil Gold, 3-7-16
- Alban Arnold, 7-7-16
- William Burns, 7-7-16
- Arthur Issac, 7-7-16
- Frank Street, 7-7-16
- Oswald Wreford-Brown, 7-7-16
- Foster Cunliffe, 10-7-16
- Joseph Williams, 10-7-16
- Claude Mulcahy, 11-7-16
- Donald Mcintosh Sinclair, 13-7-16
- William Carlsson, 14-7-16
- George Gilroy, 15-7-16
- William Greive, 18-7-16
- Albert Pratt, 19-7-16
- Andrew Moncrieff Given, 19-7-16
- Ernest Shorrocks, 20-7-16
- Percy Jeeves, 22-7-16
- William Boswell, 28-7-16
- Frank Lugton, 29-7-16
- Arthur Marsden, 31-7-16
- Claude Newberry, 1-8-16
- William Benton, 17-8-16
- George Macnamara, 17-8-16
- Brian Butler, 18-8-16
- Charles George Farmer, 18-8-16
- Thomas Askham, 21-8-16
- Frank Dredge, 22-8-16
- Leo Butler, 23-8-16
- Christopher Collier, 25-8-16
- Samuel Bates, 28-8-16
- Kenneth Hutchings, 3-9-16
- G E Driver, 7-9-16
- Edwin Bertram Myers, 15-9-16
- Rupert Hickmott, 16-9-16
- John Hunt, 16-9-16
- Henry Keigwin, 20-9-16
- Arthur Willmer, 20-9-16
- William Drysdale, 29-9-16
- Edward Shaw, 7-10-16
- Herbert Rogers, 12-10-16
- Charles Yaldren, 23-10-16
- Arthur Davis, 4-11-16
- Cyril Rattigan, 13-11-16
- Charles Minnaar, 16-11-16
- James Stewart Swallow, 17-11-16
- Leonard Moon, 23-11-16
- Attwood Alfred Torrens, 8-12-16
- John William, 26-12-16
- William Eltham, 31-12-16
- 1917
- Roland George Blinko, 6-1-17
- Gilbert Howe, 10-1-17
- Laurence Frank Gatenby, 14-1-17
- George Augustus Poeppel, 2-2-17
- Henry Bernard Stricker, 15-2-17
- Robert Wilfred Fairey Jesson, 22-2-17
- Charles Frearson Younger, 21-3-17
- Walter Greive, 1-4-17
- Edward Charles Coleman, 2-4-17
- Geoffrey Laird Jackson, 9-4-17
- Cecil Bodington, 11-4-17
- William Grant Spruell Stuart, 23-4-17
- Harold James Goodwin, 24-4-17
- Meredith Magniac, 25-4-17
- Maurice Edward Coxhead, 3-5-17
- Norman Frank Callaway, 3-5-17
- Richard Stanley Worsley, 4-5-17
- Henry Blacklidge, 23-5-17
- Hubert George Selwyn-Smith, 7-6-17
- John Edward Raphael, 11-6-17
- Percy Macclesfield Heath, 14-7-17
- Edward Hedley Cuthbertson, 24-7-17
- Herbert Bailey, 31-7-17
- James Gordon Kinvig, 31-7-17
- Logie Colin Leggatt, 31-7-17
- William Riley, 9-8-17
- Vivian Claude Kavanagh, 9-8-17
- Harry Biedermann, 10-8-17
- John Asquith Atkinson Nelson, 12-8-17
- Ralf Hubert Robinson, 23-8-17
- Ernest Ewart Gladstone Alderwick, 26-8-17
- Richard Percy Lewis, 7-9-17
- Eric Balfour Lundie, 12-9-17
- Charles Pepper, 13-9-17
- John Congreve Murray, 23-9-17
- Ernest Herbert Simpson, 2-10-17
- William Ward Odell, 4-10-17
- Frederick Bisset Collins, 4-10-17
- Allan Ivo Steel, 8-10-17
- Richard Angwin Rail, 9-10-17
- Thomas James Bryden, 12-10-17
- Gother Robert Carlisle Clarke, 12-10-17
- Theodore Arthur Tapp, 21-10-17
- James Valiant, 28-10-17
- Donald Lacey Priestley, 30-10-17
- Albert 'Tibby' Cotter, 31-10-17
- Fairfax Gill, 1-11-17
- Colin Blythe, 8-11-17
- Clifford Allen Saville, 8-11-17
- Guy Denis Wilson, 30-11-17
- John Campbell, 2-12-17
- Harold Gwyer Garnett, 3-12-17
- George Charles Lee Wilson, 14-12-17
- James Bannerman, 23-12-17
- Walter Malcolm, 23-12-17
- 1918
- Leonard George, 3-1-18
- Harvey Staunton, 14-1-18
- William Robert Gregory, 23-1-18
- Reginald George Pridmore, 13-3-18
- Lawrence Julius Le Fleming, 21-3-18
- Harold Augustus Hodges, 24-3-18
- Edward William Marvin, 24-3-18
- Arthur Cyril Bateman, 28-3-18
- Arthur Edward Ochse, 11-4-18
- Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands, 20-4-18
- Lestock Handley Adams, 22-4-18
- Osborne Henry Douglas, 24-4-18
- William Knowles Tyldesley, 26-4-18
- Ernest Frederick Parker, 2-5-18
- Frederick Hugh Geoffrey Trumble, 10-5-18
- Egerton Lowndes Wright, 11-5-18
- Harold Thomas Forster, 29-5-18
- Karl Otto Siedle, 30-5-18
- Charles Bryan Tomblin, 5-6-18
- Ellis Louis George Neville Grell, 5-6-18
- Edwin John Leat, 8-6-18
- Henry Wilfred Persse, 28-6-18
- Eric Anthony Rollo Gore-Brown, 3-7-18
- Ernest Herbert Relf, 27-7-18
- David William Jennings, 6-8-18
- John Hugh Gunner, 9-8-18
- Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory, 25-8-18
- Donald Clark Johnston, 13-9-18
- Thomas Archibald Truman, 13-9-18
- Charles Young Adamson, 17-9-18
- Oswald Massey Samson, 17-9-18
- Archibald Newcombe Difford, 20-9-18
- Charles Eric Hatfeild, 21-9-18
- Charles Barnett Fleming, 22-9-18
- John Francis Sartorius Winnington, 22-9-18
- William St Clair Grant, 26-9-18
- Frederick Henri Abraham, 2-10-18
- Alfred Hartley, 9-10-18
- Ernest Elgood Crawshaw, 9-10-18
- William Oliver Matless Mosse, 10-10-18
- Gordon Charles White, 17-10-18
- George William Edendale Whithead, 17-10-18
- Arthur Houssemayne du Boulay, 25-10-18
- Hugh Jones, 10-11-18
- Reginald Oscar Schwarz, 18-11-18
- Herbert Walter Green, 31-12-18
- Other Cricket Clubs Played For
- Cricketers by Team
