Английская Википедия:Egerton Wright
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox cricketer Egerton Lowndes Wright Шаблон:Post-nominals (15 November 1885 – 11 May 1918) was an English cricketer and soldier who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Oxford University from 1905 to 1910.
Wright was born in Chorley, Lancashire, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[1] He appeared in 37 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper. He scored 1638 runs with a highest score of 95 and held 26 catches with three stumpings.[2]
He married Violet Shakespear in 1911. They had two children.[3]
In World War I, Wright was a captain with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He went to France in 1915 and served there with distinction, being awarded the Military Cross[4] and twice mentioned in dispatches. He was killed in action near Barly, Somme, on 11 May 1918.[5]
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External links
- ↑ Nigel McCrery, Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, 2015. pp. 293–94.
- ↑ Egerton Wright at ESPNcricinfo
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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