Minor Counties Players War Deaths

GROVE; Lancelot Townley [Kent 2 nd XI 1937-1938] b Satra, India 22.8.1905 d Gander, Newfoundland, Canada 9.2.1943. FC: Army and Combined Services. Lieutenant Colonel Royal Engineers. Bat 3-6-0-86-32-14.33 Bowl 12-0 HALLIDAY; John Gordon [Oxfordshire 1932-1939] b Cockermouth, Cumberland 4.7.1915 d Rochefort, France 3.12.1945. RHB, RM. FC: Oxford University and Minor Counties. Wing Commander 59 th Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Bat 63-107-11-2448-129-25.50-2-13 ct 28 Bowl 1785-50-35.70-5/44-1-0 HAMILTON; Cyril Penn [Kent 2 nd XI 1935] b Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 12.8.1909 d Keren, Eritrea 10.2.1941. RHB, RS. FC: Kent, Gentlemen and Army. Hockey [Scotland]. Major 25 th Regiment Royal Artillery. Bat 1-1-0-41-41-41.00 ct 1 Bowl 47-5-9.40-5/47-1-0 HAYE; John Claude ‘Jack’ [Cornwall 1931-1939] b Newton Ferrers, Devon 1909 d West Vlaanderen, Belgium 20.5.1940. Second Lieutenant Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Bat 9-14-0-130-44-9.28 ct 8 HAYFIELD; Montague Allan [Kent 2 nd XI 1935] b Mandalay, Burma 10.9.1915 d Dunkirk, France 2.6.1940. Second Lieutenant 1 st Battalion East Surrey Regiment. Bat 1-2-0-2-2-1.00 Bowl 26-0 HERMON; John Victor [Berkshire 1924] b Nantwich, Cheshire 22.11.1905 d Salerno, Italy 9.9.1943. Later changed his surname to Hermon-Wilson. Captain 6 th Battalion Grenadier Guards. Bat 1-2-0-55-45-27.50 ct 1 HOSKING; George Anthony ‘Tony’ [Cheshire 1935-1938] b Wirral, Cheshire 1916 d Libya 9.1.1943. RHB. Rugby Union [Birkenhead Park and Cheshire]. Lawn Tennis [Cheshire]. Serjeant 142 General Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps. Bat 10-10-2-178-86-22.25-0-1 ct 2 HOWLETT; Bernard ‘Swifty’ [Kent 2 nd XI 1923] b Stoke Newington, Middlesex 18.12.1898 d Santa Maria Imbaro, Abruzzo, Italy 29.11.1943. RHB, RF. FC: Kent, Europeans, Army, Bombay, Europeans & Parsees, Europeans in the East and MCC]. Brigadier 36 th Infantry Brigade Queen’s Own Royal Kent Regiment. DSO and Bar. Bat 4-6-2-62-24*-15.50 ct 3 Bowl 285-16-17.81-6/46-1-0 HUMAN; Roger Henry Charles [Berkshire 1925-1934] b Gosforth, Northumberland 11.5.1909 d Bangalore, India 21.11.1942. RHB. RM. FC: Cambridge University, Worcestershire, Gentlemen and MCC. Brother of JH Human [Cambridge University, Middlesex, MCC, HDG Leveson-Gower’s XI, Gentlemen, The Rest and Berkshire]. Captain 6 th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Bat 39-58-5-1597-138-30.13-1-12 ct 32 Bowl 1181-66-17.89-7/39-4-2 ISHERWOOD; George Herbert [Denbighshire 1930-1935] b Chorlton, Lancashire 2.4.1911 d Tan Baia, Burma 1.9.1943. Lieutenant 1 st Battalion Lancashire Regiment. Bat 5-9-1-61-17-7.62 ct 1 JACKSON; James Bertram [Norfolk 1937] b South Africa 15.11.1917 d Colchester, Essex 21.8.1940. Cambridge University student. Second Lieutenant 4 th /7 th Royal Dragoon Guards Royal Armoured Corps. Bat 1-2-0-15-13-7.50 JAGGARD; Harold Royston [Suffolk 1936] b Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 3.12.1917 d Lirigen Emslander Landkreis, Lower Saxony, Germany 2.1.1944. Squadron Leader [Pilot] 7 th Squadron Royal Air Force. Bat 1-2-0-5-5-2.50 JAMES; Harold Morton [Kent 2 nd XI 1923] b Hornsey, Middlesex 24.3.1885 d Djambi, Sumatra 16.3.1942. Tea Planter. Lieutenant Colonel Negri Sembilian Local Defence Corps. Bat 1-2-1-34-25-34.00 JONES; William Maxwell [Glamorgan 2 nd XI 1936-1937] b Alltwen, Glamorgan 11.2.1911 d Denbigh, Denbighshire 1.12.1943. RHB, RM. FC: Glamorgan. Gunner 381 Light AA Battery Royal Artillery. Bat 3-5-1-111-70-27/75-0-1 ct 2 Bowl 47-3-15.66-2/13 KERSHAW; Anthony [Lancashire 2 nd XI] b Macclesfield, Cheshire 25.11.1919 d near Newhaven, Sussex 19.3.1941. LHB, SLA. Pilot Officer Royal Air Force [Auxilary Air Force] No 1 Squadron. Bat 1-1-0-39-39-39.00 LEGGE; Geoffrey Bevington [Kent 2 nd XI 1922-1924] b Bromley, Kent 26.1.1903 d Brampford Speke, Devon 21.11.1940. RHB, LB. FC: England, Kent, Oxford University and MCC. Brother-in-law of JV Richardson [Oxford University and Essex]. Lieutenant Commander Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Fleet Air Arm. Bat 7-12-0-106-32-8.83 ct 7 LLEWELYN; John Griffith [Devon 1926-1927] b Littleham, Devon 1909 d Sailly-Labourse, Pas-de-Calais, France 23.5.1940. Brother of RS Llewellyn [Dorset]. Wing Commander [Pilot] 40 th Squadron Royal Air Force. Bat 4-6-1-58-19-11.60 ct 2 LLOYD; Norman Duplan [Lincolnshire 1931] b Croydon, Surrey 1906 d Hong Kong 25.5.1942. Serjeant Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. Bat 2-4-1-18-10-6.00 ct 1 Bowl 157-4-39.25-3/59