Roland John Parker MBE (19 July 1925 - October 2020) was an English former first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer.[1]
Parker was born at Pudsey, where he was coached by Herbert Sutcliffe and Len Hutton during his youth.[2] He joined the Royal Air Force in the latter stages of the Second World War, serving as a pilot officer as an emergency commission on probation in July 1945.[3] After a successful probation he was promoted to flying officer in October 1945.[4]
He played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team in 1947, making two appearances against Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire,[5] scoring 36 runs.[6] Fifty years later he was a made an MBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to community sport in Pudsey.[7]
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