Francis Browning
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Source: CricketArchive, 6 December 2022 |
Francis Henry Browning (23 June 1868 – 26 April 1916) was an Irish cricketer and President of the Irish Rugby Football Union. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper.
Frank Browning was born in
Outside cricket, he was a
He was killed in the Easter Rising of 1916 while serving with the part-time Volunteer Training Corps (a form of Home Guard). On Easter Monday the VTC unit he had formed were on an exercise in the Dublin mountains when they received news of the outbreak of the Rising in the city. Their return route led them across the narrow Mount Street Bridge (Conyngham Bridge) where the men of the 1 (Dublin) battalion VTC in civilian clothes with arm-bands and carrying rifles but not ammunition, came under fire from an Irish Volunteer position at 25 Northumberland Road.[1] Seven of them were wounded, four - including Browning - fatally - before firing ceased.
Browning was taken to
See also
References
- ^ Capt. E W.S Gerrard. "Diarmuid Gavin Episode - 1916 The Battle of Mount Street". Who do you think you are? Series 2. RTE. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Francis Henry Browning". StatsZone Ireland. cricketeurope4.net. Archived from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
External links
- CricketEurope Stats Zone profile Archived 4 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine