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Francis Hodder, the Glossary

Index Francis Hodder

Francis Samuel Hodder (11 February 1906 – 6 September 1943) was an Irish first-class cricketer, rugby union player and Royal Air Force officer.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Aden Province, Avro Lancaster, Battle of France, Böchingen, Bill Leggatt, British Army cricket team, British Expeditionary Force (World War II), Carrigaline, Century (cricket), County Championship (rugby union), First-class cricket, Flight lieutenant, Flying officer, Group captain, Handley Page, Hill House School, South Yorkshire, Ireland national rugby union team, Kent Rugby Football Union, Kingdom of Iraq, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, London Irish, Luftwaffe, Mannheim, Mentioned in dispatches, Midland Bank, Nazi Germany, Not out, Over (cricket), Pilot officer, RAF Advanced Air Striking Force, RAF Syerston, Rheinberg War Cemetery, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force cricket team, Rugby union, Squadron leader, The Oval, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, World War II.

  2. Burials at Rheinberg War Cemetery
  3. Cricketers from County Cork
  4. People from Carrigaline

Aden Province

The Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden was the administrative status under which the former Aden Settlement (1839–1932) was placed from 1932 to 1937.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France (bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.

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Böchingen

Böchingen is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Bill Leggatt

Lieutenant colonel William Murray Leggatt (2 September 1900 – 13 August 1946) was an English officer in the British Army and amateur cricketer who played in 11 first-class cricket matches between 1926 and 1933.

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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 Expeditionary Force (World War II)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the contingent of the British Army sent to France in 1939 after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany on 3 September, beginning the Second World War.

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Carrigaline

Carrigaline is a town and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the River Owenabue.

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Century (cricket)

In cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batter.

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County Championship (rugby union)

The County Championship is an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties.

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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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Group captain

Group captain (Gp Capt or G/C) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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Handley Page

Handley Page Limited was a British aerospace manufacturer.

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Hill House School, South Yorkshire

Hill House School is a co-educational independent day school for pupils from the ages of 3 to 18 in South Yorkshire, England.

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Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team (Foireann rugbaí náisiúnta na hÉireann) is the men's representative national team for the island of Ireland in rugby union.

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The Kent Rugby Football Union is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in the county of Kent in England.

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Kingdom of Iraq

The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (translit) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958.

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Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey south-east of Liverpool city centre.

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London Irish

London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club, currently in administration, which competed in the Premiership, the top division of English rugby union.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.

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Mentioned in dispatches

To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Midland Bank

Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Not out

In cricket, a batsman is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings.

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Over (cricket)

In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a single bowler.

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Pilot officer

Pilot officer (Plt Off or P/O) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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RAF Advanced Air Striking Force

The RAF Advanced Air Striking Force (AASF) comprised the light bombers of 1 Group RAF Bomber Command, which took part in the Battle of France during the Second World War.

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RAF Syerston

Royal Air Force Syerston, commonly known simply as RAF Syerston, is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Rheinberg War Cemetery

The Rheinberg War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Rheinberg, Germany.

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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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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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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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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Burials at Rheinberg War Cemetery

Cricketers from County Cork

People from Carrigaline

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hodder