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List Of Royal Navy First-class Cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who played first-class cricket, first-class matches for the Royal Navy cricket team. The side played a total of 21 first-class matches between 1912 and 1929, most frequently playing the British Army cricket team, Army side which it met 14 times in top-level matches, all of which were played at Lord's. The side played the Royal Air Force cricket team, Royal Air Force three times in first-class matches between 1927 and 1929 and also played first-class matches against Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC and, in 1927, against the New Zealand cricket team in England in 1927, touring New Zealanders. Royal Navy cricket teams continue to play organised matches in the modern era, but none have held official status since 1929. A Army and Navy cricket team, combined Army and Navy team played three first-class matches between 1910 and 1919 and the Combined Services cricket team, Combined Services side played 63 fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but the term was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the International Cricket Council, Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians and statisticians with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bartley (cricketer)
Edward Leslie Dayrell Bartley (2 March 1896 – 7 October 1969) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. The son of a soldier, Edward Beckles Bartley, he was born at Stockport in March 1896. Bartley was commissioned into the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant in 1913. The following year, he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's. He served in the initial stages of the First World War aboard , doing so until 1915. He then served aboard and , before being transferred to the nascent Royal Air Force (RAF) in March 1917; with this transfer, his rank changed to flight sub-lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant in November 1917, and later relinquished his commission in the RAF shortly after Armistice Day and returned to the Royal Navy. Following the war, Bartley returned to first-class cricket for the Royal Navy, making four appearances in the Royal Navy v British Army fixture from 1919 to 1924. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Casswell
Arthur Henry Seymour Casswell (8 October 1892 – 29 October 1940) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Air Service The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty (United Kingdom), Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Casswell, Arthur 1892 births 1940 deaths People from the Borough of Waverley People educated at Tonbridge School Royal Navy officers Royal Navy personnel of World War I Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) English cricketers Royal Navy cricketers Cricketers from Surrey 20th-century English sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cantrell
Brigadier Arthur Stanley Cantrell (8 May 1883 – 22 May 1954) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Marines officer. Cantrell was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery and served during the First World War. His military service with the Royal Marines lasted until his retirement in 1934, though he did later come out of retirement to serve in the Second World War. Cantrell also played first-class cricket for the Royal Navy Cricket Club between 1913–1929, making fourteen appearances. Early life, first-class debut and WWI Cantrell was born in British Ceylon and was educated in England at Bedford School and Bedford Modern School. He was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery (RMA) as a second lieutenant in August 1900. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in February 1903. He was made a captain in September 1911. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord's in 1913. Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Campbell (courtier)
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir Harold George Campbell (6 April 1888 – 9 June 1969) was a British sailor, civil servant and courtier who served as equerry to George VI of the United Kingdom, King George VI (1936–52) and then to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II 1952–54. Campbell was born in Kensington, the son of Henry Alexander Campbell of Renfrewshire and Ivy Valery Clavering, daughter of Sir Henry Clavering, 10th Baronet. While serving with the Royal Navy in the First World War, Campbell was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his actions during the Zeebrugge Raid. He commanded the ''Daffodil'', a former Mersey Ferry boat, in the raid when the old armoured cruiser was struggling to get into the mole (architecture), mole face. Under heavy fire from the enemy, Campbell used the ''Daffodil'' to push the ''Vindictive''s Bow (watercraft), bows into the mole. As a war historian remarked later of Campbell's skill, "Only a fine seaman could have m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Cadell
Alexander Richard Cadell (19 August 1900 – 14 May 1928) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. The son of the British Indian Army General Alexander Cadell, he was born in British India at Firozpore in August 1900. Cadell was appointed an acting sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy in July 1917, and served in the final 17 months of the First World War. In February 1919, he gained the full rank of sub-lieutenant, with promotion to lieutenant following in October 1920. Cadell made his debut in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in 1922. He would play first-class cricket for the Royal Navy until 1927, making seven appearances. In addition to his naval cricket, Cadell also played first-class cricket for Hampshire, first appearing for the county against Leicestershire in the 1923 County Championship at Portsmouth. He later played a second first-class match for Hampshire in the 1927 County Championship, against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Brooks
General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, (22 August 1896 – 22 March 1966) was a British military commander who went on to become the 19th and longest-serving governor of Victoria, Australia. Early life Brooks was born on 22 August 1896 at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, son of Dallas George Brooks and Violet Ruth Brooks, née Shepherd. He was an only child. Brooks was educated at Dover College and joined the Royal Marines in 1914. During the First World War he was severely wounded during the Gallipoli landings in 1915. He took part in the Zeebrugge Raid in 1918, for which he was awarded a Distinguished Service Order. The citation for the award appeared in ''The Edinburgh Gazette'' in July 1918 and reads as follows: Cricketing career Upon returning from war, Brooks made his first-class debut for the Royal Navy against Cambridge University in 1919 as a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium. The same season he made his debut for Hampshire against Surrey in the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Brooke-Short
Cecil Brooke-Short (18 December 1894 – 28 June 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Born in Trinidad, Brooke-Short was commissioned into the Royal Marines as a second lieutenant in October 1913. He served in the Marines in the First World War, during which he was granted the temporary rank of lieutenant in October 1914, with confirmation of the full rank coming in October 1916. He was then promoted to the rank of captain in October 1917. After the war, Brooke-Short was placed on half-pay in September 1919, while holding a special appointment, before returning to the establishment in December 1921. He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in 1925. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Royal Navy first-innings by Adrian Gore, while in their second-innings he was unbeaten on 3 runs. He was later promoted to the rank of major in November 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Brooke (Royal Navy Officer, Born 1895)
Vice Admiral Basil Charles Barrington Brooke (6 April 1895 – 20 January 1983) was an English admiral and cricketer, who also played for the Singapore national cricket team. He played twice for the Royal Navy Cricket Club in first-class cricket. A member of the Brooke family which ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946, he commanded the battle cruiser HMS ''Renown'' during the Second World War. Early life and family Brooke was born at Boddington House, Byfield in Northamptonshire, England, the eldest son of John Charles Evelyn Hope Brooke (13 November 1858 – 19 June 1934), who was the grand-nephew of Sir James Brooke, the first White Rajah of Sarawak and who had been born there, and of The Hon. Violet Mary Barrington (9 May 1872 – 10 December 1938), who was the second daughter of the ninth Viscount Barrington. His grandfather, John Brooke Johnson-Brooke (1823–1868), the elder brother of Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah, had been the heir apparent to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boyd (sportsman)
James Lawrence Boyd (18 August 1891 – 15 June 1930) was a Scottish first-class cricketer, rugby union international and Royal Navy officer. Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for United Services. Provincial career He played for Anglo-Scots on 23 December 1911. International career Boyd was selected to play rugby union for Scotland as a fly-half in 1912, making two Test appearances against England in the Five Nations Championship in March, and South Africa in November, with both matches played at Inverleith. Cricket career In 1913 he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's. Following the war, he made a further first-class appearance for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord's in 1919. Family The son of Thomas Morgan Boyd, a Scottish tea merchant, Boyd was born in China at Amoy. Military career He was educated in England at the Royal Naval College, Osborne from where he entered i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Boucher
Captain Sidney Boucher (17 September 1899 – 4 August 1963), also known as Sam Boucher, was an English Royal Navy officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. He played first-class cricket for Royal Navy Cricket Club between 1923 and 1929 as well as playing one match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1922. Early life Boucher was born in Rochester, Kent, the second son of Franklin and Ada Boucher. His father was a solicitor who served as the Town Clerk of Gillingham and in the 1920s was Treasurer of Rochester;Lewis P (2014) ''For Kent and Country'', pp.116–117. Brighton: Reveille Press.Franklin Boucher CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-05. he was granted the freedom of the Borough of Rochester in 1932. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Bonham-Carter
Philip Herman Bonham-Carter (12 November 1891 – 7 January 1934) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Life and naval career The son of Herman Bonham-Carter and his wife, Margaret Louisa Wathen, he was born at Karachi in British India. Enlisting in the Royal Navy, Bonham-Carter was promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant in January 1912, with promotion to the rank of lieutenant coming in June 1913. He served during the First World War, eventually reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. A physically strong and deeply religious man, he was known during his naval service as "Bonham the Good". Bonham-Carter played first-class cricket for the Royal Navy, debuting against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in 1919. He played two further first-class matches for the Royal Navy, against the Army at Lord's in 1921 and the Marylebone Cricket Club at Chatham in 1929. Across his three appearances, he scored a total of 35 runs with a high score of 16. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
