Harold Jameson
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| Full name | Harold Gordon Jameson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 January 1918 Dundrum, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 August 1940 (aged 22) Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Peter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1938 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Roll of Honour (WW2)". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Harold Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Cambridge University v Essex, 1938". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "No. 34873". The London Gazette. 14 June 1940. p. 3619.
