John Halliday (cricketer)
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| Full name | John Gordon Halliday | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 July 1915 Cockermouth, Cumberland, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 December 1945 (aged 30) Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1937 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1932–1939 | Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 June 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Gordon Halliday (4 July 1915 – 3 December 1945) was an English
batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who made over twenty appearances in first-class cricket
.
Life and career
Halliday was educated at the
half centuries and top-scoring with 87.[5] As a bowler, he took 18 wickets at an average of 37.66, with best figures of 3/11.[6] Halliday's minor counties career with Oxfordshire continued until 1939, making sixty appearances.[2] He was elected county captain in 1938.[1]
Halliday served in the
No. 59 Squadron. He was a passenger on board a B-24 Liberator on 3 December 1945, when it was struck by lightning and crashed near Rochefort in France, killing all 28 on board.[10] He was buried at Rochefort-sur-Mer Naval Cemetery.[11]
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Deaths in the war, 1945". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 245.
- ^ a b c "First-Class Matches played by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "No. 34854". The London Gazette. 21 May 1940. p. 3037.
- ^ "No. 35183". The London Gazette. 6 June 1941. p. 3234.
- ^ "No. 35725". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 September 1942. p. 4259.
- ^ "No. 59 Squadron RAF". www.number59.com. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "HALLIDAY, JOHN GORDON". CWGC. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
External links
- John Halliday at ESPNcricinfo
- John Halliday at CricketArchive
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