Harold Jameson

Harold Jameson
Personal information
Full name
Harold Gordon Jameson
Born25 January 1918
Dundrum, Ireland
Died26 August 1940(1940-08-26) (aged 22)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
NicknamePeter
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1938Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 7
Batting average 2.33
100s/50s –/–
Top score 4
Balls bowled 300
Wickets 2
Bowling average 102.00
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 2/68
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 January 2022

Harold Gordon Jameson (25 January 1918 — 26 August 1940) was an Irish first-class cricketer and Royal Marines officer.

The oldest son of the Reverend William Jameson and his wife Georgina Marjorie Gibbon, H G Jameson was born at Dundrum in January 1918. He was educated in England at Monkton Combe School, where his father was head of the junior school.[1] From there he matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2]

While studying at Cambridge, he made two first-class cricket appearances for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1938, against the touring Australians and against Essex, with both matches played at Fenner's.[3] He took two wickets against Essex, dismissing Alan Lavers and Tom Wade.[4]

The Second World War began in the same year that Jameson graduated from Cambridge and he was commissioned into the Royal Marines as a temporary second lieutenant in June 1940.[5] He was billeted at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth and was one of eight marines killed during a German air raid on the fort on 26 August 1940, when a bomb struck a perimeter room in which they were gathered. Jameson was buried at the Royal Naval Cemetery, Haslar.[1] His headstone reads: I will give him the morning star (Revelations 2.28).

References

  1. ^ a b McCrery, Nigel (2011). The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two. Vol. 2nd volume. Pen and Sword. p. 54-7. ISBN 978-1526706980.
  2. ^ "Roll of Honour (WW2)". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Harold Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Cambridge University v Essex, 1938". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  5. ^ "No. 34873". The London Gazette. 14 June 1940. p. 3619.