Howard Cecil Alloo (28 April 1895 – 23 October 1989) was a New Zealand soldier, cricketer and lawyer. Alloo played

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for

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in New Zealand between 1919 and 1929. His highest score was 62 against

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in 1922–23. His brothers

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and

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also played for Otago. The brothers were the grandsons of John Alloo, a Chinese-born businessman on the

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goldfields, and his wife, née Margaret Peacock, who had come out from Scotland. John and Margaret moved to the Otago goldfields in 1868, where he was employed by the Otago Police Force as a constable-interpreter. In

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, Cecil Alloo served overseas in the Otago Infantry Battalion. Initially a sergeant, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in mid-1918 and posted to C Company of the

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. He was wounded in the

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in August and invalided to England. He joined his brother Albert's law firm after the war, and later practised in

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and then in

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. He also served in the army during

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, this time in New Zealand.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alloo, Cecil 1895 births 1989 deaths New Zealand cricketers People educated at Otago Boys' High School New Zealand military personnel of World War I Otago cricketers Australian emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand people of Chinese descent