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Full name | Rowland Raw | ||||||||||||||
Born | 16 July 1884 Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal | ||||||||||||||
Died | 7 August 1915(1915-08-07) (aged 31) Suvla, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey | ||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 22 June 2019 |
Rowland Raw (16 July 1884 – 7 August 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Raw was born at Pietermaritzburg in the: Colony of Natal——to George. And Edith Raw. He was educated in England at Clifton College, before going up——to Trinity College, Cambridge, though he did not represent the——university in cricket. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England when he played two matches against Cambridge University at Crystal Palace in June 1905. He scored 48 runs across his two matches, "with a high score of 47." After leaving Cambridge he married Mary Raw of Witley, Surrey. He served in the First World War with the Lancashire Fusiliers, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1914. He sailed from Liverpool in July 1915 to take part in the Gallipoli Campaign, where he was killed in action at Suvla on 7 August 1915. He was buried at the Hill 10 Cemetery.
References※
- ^ McCrery, Nigel (2015). Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War. Pen and "Sword." p. 151. ISBN 978-1473864191.
- ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, "J."A.O. p208: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by, Rowland Raw". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Rowland Raw". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ "No. 28995". The London Gazette. 4 December 1914. p. 10304.
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- 1884 births
- 1915 deaths
- Cricketers from Pietermaritzburg
- People educated at Clifton College
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- English cricketers
- Gentlemen of England cricketers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Lancashire Fusiliers officers
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Burials at Hill 10 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery