John Harold Strachan MC (8 March 1896 – 1 December 1988) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
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| Full name | John Harold Strachan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 March 1896 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 December 1988 (aged 92) Collingwood, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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The son of Walter Strachan, he was born at Walton-on-Thames on 8 March 1896, and was educated at Charterhouse School.[1] His final year at Charterhouse coincided with the start of the First World War, and when he left he enlisted in the King's Own Scottish Borderers as a second lieutenant in March 1915.[2] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in May 1917, antedated to July 1916.[3] He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.[4]
With the war now over, he later played a single first-class cricket match for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1926.[5] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by Leonard Irvine, while in their second-innings he was promoted up the order to open, scoring 53 runs before being dismissed by the same bowler.[6] He later emigrated to Canada, where he died in December 1988 at Collingwood, Ontario.
References edit
- ^ "The Carthusian" (PDF). Charterhouse School. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "No. 29102". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 March 1915. p. 2632.
- ^ "No. 30788". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 May 1917. p. 4886.
- ^ "No. 30188". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 July 1917. p. 7246.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by John Strachan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Cambridge University v Free Foresters, 1926". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2019.