George Whitehead (cricketer)

George William Edendale Whitehead (27 August 1895 – 17 October 1918) was an English cricketer. He was educated at Clifton College. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He was born in Bromley and died in Lauwe.[1]

Whitehead made two first-class appearances during August 1914 as part of a trial with Kent County Cricket Club, first as an upper-order batsman, and then in the middle-order.[2] He managed to score a total of 12 runs over the course of his four innings for the club.[2]

Having joined the Royal Field Artillery and attaining the rank of Lieutenant, Whitehead was killed towards the end of the First World War at the age of 23.[3] He is buried at the Harlebeke New British Cemetery in Belgium.[4]

His brother, James, played a single first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1912.[5]

References

  1. ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 571–573. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 8 August 2022.)
  2. ^ a b "George Whitehead player profile". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 5 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Last resting place of George Whitehead". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  5. ^ "James Whitehead". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 October 2009.