Harold Jameson

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Harold Jameson
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Personal information
Full nameHarold Gordon Jameson
Born25 January 1918
Dundrum, Ireland
Died26 August 1940(1940-08-26) (aged 22)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1938Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 7
Batting average 2.33
100s/50s –/–
Top score 4
Balls bowled 300
Wickets 2
Bowling average 102.00
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 2/68
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 January 2022

Harold Gordon Jameson (25 January 1918 — 26 August 1940) was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of The Reverend William Jameson, and his wife Marjorie, he was born at Dundrum in January 1918. He was educated in England at Monkton Combe School, where his father was head of the junior school.[1] From there he maltriculated to Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] While studying at Cambridge, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1938, against the touring Australians and Essex, with both matches played at Fenner's.[3] He took two wickets against Essex, dismissing Alan Lavers and Tom Wade.[4] The Second World War began in the same year that Jameson graduated from Cambridge, with him being commissioned into the Royal Marines as a temporary second lieutenant in June 1940.[5] He was billeted at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth and was one of eight marines killed during a German air raid on the fort on 26 August 1940, when a bomb struck a perimeter room which they were in. Jameson was buried at the .[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b McCrery, Nigel (2011). The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two. Vol. 2nd volume. Pen and Sword. p. 54-7. ISBN 978-1526706980.
  2. ^ "Roll of Honour (WW2)". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Harold Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Cambridge University v Essex, 1938". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  5. ^ "No. 34873". The London Gazette. 14 June 1940. p. 3619.

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