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English cricketer

John Halliday
Personal information
Full nameJohn Gordon Halliday
Born(1915-07-04)4 July 1915
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died3 December 1945(1945-12-03) (aged 30)
Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1934–1937Oxford University
1934Minor Counties
1932–1939Oxfordshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 26
Runs scored 848
Batting average 24.94
100s/50s –/5
Top score 29
Balls bowled 1,509
Wickets 21
Bowling average 35.57
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 3/11
Catches/stumpings 8/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 June 2014

John Gordon Halliday (4 July 1915 – 3 December 1945) was an English cricketer active in the 1930s. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Halliday was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who made over twenty appearances in first-class cricket.

Life and career

Halliday was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys, where he excelled at cricket. He debuted for Oxfordshire in the 1932 Minor Counties Championship, and, while studying at Merton College, Oxford, made his debut in first-class cricket for the university cricket team in 1934 against Gloucestershire. Making five first-class appearances for the university in 1934, Halliday was also selected to play for the Minor Counties cricket team against Oxford University in that same year. He played first-class cricket for university until 1937, making a total of 25 appearances. Though unable to recapture his form as a schoolboy cricketer, Halliday nonetheless scored a total of 766 runs at an average of 23.21, making eight half centuries and top-scoring with 87. As a bowler, he took 18 wickets at an average of 37.66, with best figures of 3/11. Halliday's minor counties career with Oxfordshire continued until 1939, making sixty appearances. He was elected county captain in 1938.

Halliday served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, holding the rank of pilot officer in 1940, in the following year he became a flying officer. In June 1942 he was promoted to flight lieutenant, At some point after this Halliday became a wing commander. Following the end of the war, he remained with the Royal Air Force, serving with No. 59 Squadron. He was a passenger on board a B-24 Liberator on 3 December 1945, when it was struck by lightning and crashed near Rochefort in France, killing all 28 on board. He was buried at Rochefort-sur-Mer Naval Cemetery.

Notes

  1. ^ "Deaths in the war, 1945". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  3. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 245.
  4. ^ "First-Class Matches played by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  5. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  6. "First-class Bowling For Each Team by John Halliday". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  7. "No. 34854". The London Gazette. 21 May 1940. p. 3037.
  8. "No. 35183". The London Gazette. 6 June 1941. p. 3234.
  9. "No. 35725". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 September 1942. p. 4259.
  10. "No. 59 Squadron RAF". www.number59.com. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  11. "HALLIDAY, JOHN GORDON". CWGC. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 28 January 2016.

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