Frank Graham Smallwood CVO (10 February 1867 — 30 December 1919) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
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| Full name | Frank Graham Smallwood | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 February 1867 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 December 1919 (aged 52) Poona, Bombay Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1893/94 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 December 2022 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Albert Edward and Margaret Anne Smallwood, he was born in British India at Calcutta in February 1867.[1] He was educated at Rugby School, where he played for the school cricket team.[2] From Rugby he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Smallwood graduated from there into the Royal Artillery (RA) as a lieutenant in July 1886.[3] He went to British India with the RA, taking part in the Sikkim expedition of 1888.[4] In May 1891, he was seconded for service with the Indian Ordnance Service.[5] In India, Smallwood made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Bombay in the Bombay Presidency Match of August 1893.[6] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 10 runs by Nasarvanji Bapasola in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by B. C. Machhliwala.[7]
In the RA, Smallwood served in the Chitral Expedition of 1895, and was promoted to captain in July 1897.[8] He was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th Class in May 1906 in recognition of his service during the Prince and Princess of Wales' tour to India.[9] Promoted to major, he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in December 1911,[10] in connection with the Delhi Durbar of 1911.[4] Having been appointed an assistant director of ordnance stores in India in June 1914,[11] Smallwood subsequently served in the First World War and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in October 1914.[12] Following the war, he was promoted to colonel in October 1919, with seniority from October 1918.[13] Smallwood died suddenly from heart failure at King George's Hospital in Poona in December 1919.[4]
References
edit- ^ Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War. Rugby: Rugby School. 1923.
- ^ Renshaw, Andrew (8 May 2014). Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918. A & C Black. p. 469. ISBN 978-1408832363.
- ^ "No. 25615". The London Gazette. 10 August 1886. p. 3855.
- ^ a b c Mitchell, A. T. (1904). Rugby School Register 1874–1904. Vol. 2. A. J. Lawrence. p. 69.
- ^ "No. 26168". The London Gazette. 2 June 1891. p. 2926.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Frank Smallwood". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1893/94". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "No. 26869". The London Gazette. 2 July 1897. p. 3635.
- ^ "No. 27913". The London Gazette. 15 May 1906. p. 3324.
- ^ "No. 28559". The London Gazette. 8 December 1911. p. 9364.
- ^ "No. 28853". The London Gazette. 28 July 1914. p. 5870.
- ^ "No. 28987". The London Gazette. 27 November 1914. p. 9992.
- ^ "No. 31622". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 October 1919. p. 13222.