Harold Williams Dods (25 March 1909 – 18 June 1944) was an English cricketer. Dods was a left-handed batsman. The only son of Harold (who played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire)[1] and Florence Dods,[2] he was born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire, and was educated at Tonbridge School.
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| Full name | Harold Dodds | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 March 1909 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 June 1944 (aged 35) Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1927–1939 | Lincolnshire | ||||||||||||||
| 1936–1938 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 May 2012 | |||||||||||||||
Dods made his debut for Lincolnshire against the Nottinghamshire Second XI in the 1927 Minor Counties Championship. He played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire from 1927 to 1939, making a total of 86 appearances, the last of which came against Cambridgeshire.[3] In 1936, he was selected to play for a combined Minor Counties cricket team in a first-class match against Oxford University at the University Parks,[4] making scores of 9 and 22, while being twice dismissed by Richard West.[5] He toured Argentina with Sir TEW Brinckman's XI in late 1937 and early 1938, making a single first-class appearance on the tour against the Argentine national team at the Belgrano Athletic Club in Buenos Aires.[4] He scored a century in the Brinckman XIs' first-innings, making 104 runs before he was dismissed by K. S. Bush.[6] Later in 1938, he made a second first-class appearance for the Minor Counties, once more against Oxford University at the University Parks.[4] He made scores of 30 in the Minor Counties first-innings, before being dismissed by Edward Scott, while in their second-innings he was run out for 7.[7]
With World War II ending county cricket, Dods enlisted into the British Army, serving during the war with the Scots Guards. He was killed on 18 June 1944, when a German V-1 flying bomb hit the Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks in Westminster, one of 121 fatalities in the attack. At the time of his death he held the rank of Lieutenant.[2] Months earlier he had married Marigold Bird at Sleaford, Lincolnshire.[2] He is buried at Donington, Lincolnshire.
References
edit- ^ "Player profile: Harold Dods". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ a b c "Victims of The Bombing of The Guards Chapel". www.ystradgynlais.info. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Harold Dods". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ a b c "First-Class Matches played by Harold Dods". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Oxford University v Minor Counties, 1936". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Argentina v Sir TEW Brinckman's XI, 1937/38". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Oxford University v Minor Counties, 1938". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
External links
edit- Harold Dods at ESPNcricinfo
- Harold Dods at CricketArchive