Ernest Crawshaw
Ernest Elgood Crawshaw (23 June 1889 – 9 October 1918) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury. He died in France in World War I.
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Full name | Ernest Elgood Crawshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 23 June 1889||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 October 1918 29) Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1907-08 to 1913-14 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 18 December 2017 |
Life and career
Ernest Crawshaw was born in Christchurch and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, where he captained the school's cricket and rugby teams.[1] In 1908 he was awarded the school's inaugural Deans Memorial Scholarship, presented to a senior boy with outstanding personal qualities.[2] He became an accountant, and married Elsie Lorraine Gunn Francis. They had one son.[1][3]
He played cricket for Canterbury while still at school and appeared several times for them before World War I, making some useful contributions as a bowler and fieldsman.[4]
During the war he enlisted in the 1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment and travelled as part of D Company 36th Reinforcements to France, sailing from Wellington in May 1918. A sergeant-major, he was killed in action at Le Cateau on 9 October 1918.[5][1]
References
- "The Fallen and Wounded". Press. LIV (16354). 28 October 1918. p. 8. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- "Prize Distributions". Press. LXIV (11298). 16 December 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- "Roll of Honour". Sun. V (1469). 28 October 1918. p. 1. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- "Ernest Crawshaw". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- Nigel McCrery, Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, 2015, pp. 456–57.
External links
- Ernest Crawshaw at ESPNcricinfo
- Ernest Crawshaw at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Ernest Elgood Crawshaw at Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph