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Ernest Crawshaw

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Ernest Crawshaw
Personal information
Full name
Ernest Elgood Crawshaw
Born(1889-06-23)23 June 1889
Christchurch, New Zealand
Died9 October 1918(1918-10-09) (aged 29)
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1907-08 to 1913-14Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 8
Runs scored 73
Batting average 5.61
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 26
Balls bowled 724
Wickets 13
Bowling average 29.38
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 2/20
Catches/stumpings 11/–
Source: Cricinfo, 18 December 2017

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.

Life and career

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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

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  1. ^ a b c "The Fallen and Wounded". Press. Vol. LIV, no. 16354. 28 October 1918. p. 8. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Prize Distributions". Press. Vol. LXIV, no. 11298. 16 December 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Roll of Honour". Sun. Vol. V, no. 1469. 28 October 1918. p. 1. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Ernest Crawshaw". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  5. ^ Nigel McCrery, Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, 2015, pp. 456–57.
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