Colin Boumphrey, the Glossary
Colin Boumphrey DFC (27 January 1897 – 1 February 1945) was an English cricketer and an officer in both the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the Royal Air Force (RAF).[1]
Table of Contents
28 relations: Aughton, Lancashire, British Army cricket team, British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919), Cheshire County Cricket Club, Cricket, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), Donald Boumphrey, Duck (cricket), ESPNcricinfo, First-class cricket, Flight lieutenant, Flying officer, John Walford (cricketer), List of Royal Air Force first-class cricketers, Liverpool, National Counties Cricket Championship, National Counties of English and Welsh cricket, Northumberland County Cricket Club, Ormskirk, Random House, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force cricket team, Royal Naval Air Service, Russian Civil War, Shrewsbury School, Squadron leader, The Oval, World War I.
- Royal Air Force personnel of the Russian Civil War
Aughton, Lancashire
Aughton is a village and civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England.
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British Army cricket team
The Army cricket team is a cricket team representing the British Army.
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British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919)
The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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Cheshire County Cricket Club
Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty national county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
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Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 to other ranks, of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".
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Donald Boumphrey
Donald Boumphrey MC (4 October 1892 – 12 September 1971) was an English cricketer, educator and British Army officer. Colin Boumphrey and Donald Boumphrey are Cheshire cricketers and People educated at Shrewsbury School.
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Duck (cricket)
In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal with a score of zero.
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ESPNcricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.
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First-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.
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Flight lieutenant
Flight lieutenant (Flt Lt or F/L) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.
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Flying officer
Flying officer (Fg Off or F/O) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.
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John Walford (cricketer)
John Erskine Scott Walford (14 August 1899 – 22 August 1961) was an English cricketer.
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List of Royal Air Force first-class cricketers
From their first match in 1922 to their final match in 1946, 63 players represented the Royal Air Force cricket team in first-class cricket.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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National Counties Cricket Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national counties (previously called the minor counties) that do not have first-class status.
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National Counties of English and Welsh cricket
The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status.
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Northumberland County Cricket Club
Northumberland County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England, and Wales.
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Ormskirk
Ormskirk is a market town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal Air Force cricket team
The Royal Air Force cricket team is a cricket side representing the British Royal Air Force.
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Royal Naval Air Service
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air force.
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.
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Squadron leader
Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr or S/L) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.
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The Oval
The Oval, currently named for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth, in south London.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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See also
Royal Air Force personnel of the Russian Civil War
- Alan Jerrard
- Colin Boumphrey
- George Hill (intelligence officer)
- Grahame Donald
- Harold Edwards (RCAF officer)
- John Grigson
- John Mitchell (RAF officer)
- John Oliver Andrews
- Oliver Bryson
- Raymond Collishaw
- Richard M. Trevethan
- Roderick Carr
- Ronald Sykes
- Rowan Daly
- Samuel Kinkead
- Sidney Reilly
- Thomas Williams (RAF officer)
- Walter Anderson (RAF officer, died 1936)
- William Elliot (RAF officer)