Charles Backman
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Charles James Backman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 14 April 1884||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 April 1915 Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey | (aged 31)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1911/12 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: Cricinfo, 11 April 2018 |
Charles James Backman (14 April 1884 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for South Australia in the 1911–12 Sheffield Shield season.[1][2] He was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign[3][4] and was the first Australian cricketer who played in the Sheffield Shield to be killed in World War I.[5]
See also[]
- List of South Australian representative cricketers
- List of cricketers who were killed during military service
References[]
- ^ "Charles Backman". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Remembering Gallipoli". Bradman Foundation. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Charles James Backman". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Charles James Backman". UNSW Canberra. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "How Australian sport dealt with World War I". Adelaide Now. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1884 births
- 1915 deaths
- Australian cricketers
- South Australia cricketers
- Cricketers from Adelaide
- Australian military personnel killed in World War I
- Australian cricket biography, 1880s birth stubs