World War 1 Frayling – McCrea | Guernsey Cricket Stats

2^nd Lt Herbert Joseph Frayling (3206) was born in 1899. to Frederick Frayling, the Managing Director of Le Riches Stores. He joined Elizabeth College in 1909 and left in 1917. He played 2nd XI Football 1916, 1st XI Hockey 1917, 2nd XI Football 1917, 2nd XI Cricket with 3 appearances for the 1st XI, Prefect 1917 and was a Cadet in Officer Training Corps 1917.

1916

EC 204 2^nd Bn RGLI 54

1917

EC 78-6 R G Artillery 136

EC 140-9 9 Waite XI 138-7

He was awarded 2^nd team colours

He joined the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry on leaving school on 5 November 1917 (No. 2624). He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 30 April 1918 and appointed to Hampshire Regiment. On 4th May 1918 he was transferred as 2nd Lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. He died on 30 August 1918 killed in action, aged 19 and is buried at Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais.

Herbert Frayling CWGC

Lt Charles Alpe Grantham (2865) was born in Quitta, Bengal, India in Jan 1887 to Charles Fulford Grantham and Margaret Rosalind Alpe. He attended College from 1898-1904. He played rugby, soccer and cricket as well as winning the MacCrea shooting medal.

1903

EC 2^nd 88 17 Grange 2^nd 164

EC 163 0 Leicester Regt 78

EC 184-1 H F Morres XI 182-6

EC 2^nd 82 4 Grange 2^nd 153-6

EC 87 4 Grange 182-9

EC 93 0 Athletics 108

EC 87 6* Rangers 146-5

EC 149-5 R Gsy Artillery 55

EC 2^nd 153 30 Scratch XI 69

EC 174 0 Grange 74

EC 151-8 Athletics 41

1904

Played ‘Fag’ in Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’. He was also the athletics champion.

EC 2^nd 67 5 & 78-6 21 Grange 2^nd 115

EC 166 19 Rangers 62-4

EC 89 0 Grange 85

EC 232-5 0* Vic Coll 115 & 24-5

EC 46 4* & 118-6 Devon & Somst Strag. 192

EC 96 1 Grange 124

EC 83 0 & 99-4 Vic Coll 53 & 33-4

He was awarded his colours

He was a 2^nd Lt in the 87 Royal Irish Fuselliers. He won the 100 yards and the 440 yards in the All Ireland Army Athletics meeting. He became Lt in 33^rd Queens Victoria Own Light Cavalry. He became the Adjutant to the Lt Gov. Bengals Bodyguard in 1913 and the ADC to the Governor in Bengal in 1914. At the battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia he was killed in March 1915, his memorial at Bazra, Iraq.

Gerald Williams Hilliard (2726), born 1885, became a Flight Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service. He joined Elizabeth College in 1893 and left in 1903 and played 2nd XV Rugby 1900 – 1 and 1st XI Cricket 1901. He was a member of the Literary Society in 1900 and played ‘Confidante’ in Sheridan’s ‘Critic’.

1901

EC 97 3 T D Stanger-Leathes Ab

EC 187 10 Grange 53 & 84

EC 219-7 25 T H Knight 95 6-0-4-1

EC 113-9 1 Grange 180-4

EC 198-9 19 St Martins 143-9

EC 161 4 & 57-0 Vic Coll 74 & 140 1-0-12-0

EC 92 0 Catel 220-7 5-0-19-0

EC 205-8 4 Norfolk Regt 85

EC 200-7 T D Stanger-Leathes 37

EC 145 3* Vic Coll 40 & 61-5

EC 107 18* Torpedo Squadron 125 7-1-31-2

EC 47 1 & 53-2 St Martins 162

He entered Great Western Railway workshops. He joined the Royal Aero Club, member no. 1079, qualified to fly a Grahame-White biplane at the Grahame-White school in Hendon in February 1915. A Zeppelin L14 was conducting a bombing raid over East England and Hilliard was piloting one of 3 RNAS aeroplanes hunting for it. On 8th September 1915 he was flying a BE2c. He died aged 30 when his bombs exploded on making a heavy night landing at Bacton after reporting Zeppelins over Gt. Yarmouth on 8th September 1915. He is buried at Caister Cemetery near Great Yarmouth.

Lt Percy Edgar Napier Howard (3246) was born in Darjeeling, India, in 1894 and played College 1st XI cricket from 1911-13.

1911

EC 91 9 Athletics 50 & 147-3

EC 142 17 Grange 113

EC 197 9 H F Morres XI 127-3

EC 110 8 R Gsy Artillery 71 & 91-8

EC 145 1 Royal Irish Regt 140

EC 69 0 & 68-4 Garrison 166

EC 2^nd 87 0 & 61-7 0 Victoria CA 224

EC 139 15* H F Morres XI 204-7

EC 68 2 & 33-7 5 Vic Coll 74 & 229

EC 102 5 Athletics 132-4

EC 106 1 Garrison 98

EC 129 3 & 47-4 Vic Coll 226

He was awarded 2^nd XI colours

1912

EC 64 2 & 51-5 5 V Beuttler XI 144

EC 60 21 Athletics 151

EC 98 3 & 76-7 3 Garrison 67

EC 65 0 Athletics 131

EC 95 0 Grange 221

EC 151 29 R Gsy Artillery 45 & 83-4

EC 142 1 E W Hutton XI 128

EC 164-6 29 Vic Coll 56-6

EC 115 0 Rangers 112

EC 81 45 & 45-4 R Gsy Artillery 52

EC 79 7 Grange 117

1913

EC 134 12 Athletics 41-5

EC 55 2 Grange 82

EC 120 10 F W Mourant XI 89

EC 132 21 C J Rawlinson XI 113

EC 129 39 F W Mourant XI 107

EC 127 0 Grange 67

EC 183 7 Vic Coll 190 2-0-3-0

EC 179 58 R Gsy Artillery 112 3 for 18

EC 113 2 & 88 6 Vic Coll 99 & 64-5

EC 82 4 OEs 110 1 for 14

EC Past & P 96 15 Grange 194 3 for 41

He was awarded his colours

He belonged to the 2^nd Bn Royal Irish Regiment who were involved in a particularly brilliant charge on the evening of 19th August in which the Royal Irish took the position at Le Pilley near Lille. In the fighting of 18th, 19th, and 20th only 136 men survived out of a battalion of 904. He was killed, as were most, by shrapnel at Lille in Oct 1914 aged 19. He is buried at Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais.

Lt Frank Stanley Layard (3133), born in Ceylon in 1897, was brother to EHF Layard. FS Layard played the part of ‘Conrade’ in ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ and was in the 1^st XI cricket team in 1913 and 1914.

1913

EC 134 2 Athletics 41-5

EC 120 3 F W Mourant XI 89

EC 124 41* R Gsy Artillery 85

EC 112-5 53 Rangers 58 & 81

EC 40 0 Royal Irish Regt 202

EC 95 7 Garrison 203

EC 94 1 Athletics 190

EC 179 0 R Gsy Artillery 112

EC 113 0 & 88 23 Vic Coll 99 & 64-5

EC 82 4 OEs 110

1914

EC 122 11 Green Howards 136

EC 234 4 Rangers 50 & 55-6

EC 191 3 Athletics 107

EC 73 2 Grange 173

EC 234-4 F W Mourant XI 97

EC 150-5 4 Garrison 102-3

EC 267-3 Vic Coll 155 & 88-3

EC 157 4 R Gsy Artillery 47

EC 62 2* Green Howards 167

EC 164-2 HMS Superb 66 & 46-2

EC 142-3 F W Mourant XI 199-7

EC 138 7* Garrison 187

EC 342-8 36 Vic Coll 127

EC 128 0 Grange 94

EC 222-3d Athletics 131

After joining the Border Regiment in 1916 he was reported missing and assumed killed in France in May 1917 aged 20. He was awarded the Military Cross at Arras in April, his citation being “2nd Lieut. Frank Stanley Layard, Border Regiment commanded a patrol of bombers on reconnaissance, which came under heavy fire. In spite of several casualties, he completed his task and brought back most valuable information. The success of the enterprise was entirely due to his own personal courage and determination.” On the attack on Beaumont Hamel his regiment lost 75% of men and 20 out of 23 officers. He was wounded in the leg when involved in an attack at Monchy-le-Preux. His body was found in 1920 by the War Graves Commission and probably died from his original injury but his body was buried by earth thrown up by shells exploding. In 1922 his mother visited the grave where she planted Guernsey lilies ‘so that all who came will know here lies a Guernsey boy’. He is commemorated at the Dury Crucifix Cemetery, Pas de Calais.

Lt F S Layard Guernsey Weekly Press

His father FH Layard had 3 brothers (CWC, AH, EW) who all attended Elizabeth College and had strong links with the tea trade in Ceylon. (EHF Layard was still playing cricket in Ceylon in 1928 and 1931)

Capt Henry Byng Leapingwell (2627) was born in Madras, India in 1882 to Lt Col A H Leapingwell and Susan Isabella Hawks. He was married to Winifred Gertrude Barney in July 1908 in Paddington, London. He played for the College 1^st XI from 1897-1900.

1897

EC 61 0 Training Squad 180-9 9-2-27-2

1898

EC 77 5 E C Arnold XI 69

EC 111 0 R Gsy Artillery 66 2-1-2-2

EC 55 16 Athletics 41

EC 24 0 Garrison 94 3-1-3-1

EC 134 7 T D Stanger-Leathes 136 5-0-33-1

EC 116 0 Vic Coll 31

EC 178 12 Rangers 47 & 30-5 4-0-15-2

EC 32 0 & 54-5 Wiltshire Regt 179 6-0-30-1

EC 75-6 Training Squad 155 8-1-20-2

EC 187-8 27* Castel 132-7 18-2-41-4

EC 97 2 Capt Macrea 60 9-0-23-2

& 49-4 8-0-29-3

EC 175-6 5 Rangers 80 15-2-40-4

EC 132 2 R Gsy Artillery 131 11-3-25-1

EC 194 8 Vic Coll 111 12-3-34-2

1899

EC 83 7 T D Stanger-Leathes 42 7-1-19-2

& 49-5

EC 102-4 Northerners 88 11-0-20-2

Masters XI 116 8 Grange 118-2 4-0-16-0

EC 85 0 Grange 160-3 9-1-36-1

EC 85-9 15* Castel 64 18-5-32-5

EC 111 1 Training Squad 126 13-2-29-0

EC 86 21 & 122-4 Vic Coll 72 8-4-8-0

EC 63 4 & 26-2 Training Squad 151 10-2-23-4

EC 108-8 12 R Gsy Artillery 97 15.2-3-33-4

EC 161-7 2 R Gsy Artillery 90 15.3-2-49-9

EC 104-6 10 G E V Austen XI 171 17.3-1-54-4

EC 71 0 Wiltshire Regt 118-8 15-3-30-2

EC 65 10* Castel 69 12-3-23-2

EC 89 5 R Gsy Artillery 106 3-0-8-0

EC 124 24 Athletics 81 6-0-23-3

EC 99-8 1 Grange 91 3.3-0-11-2

EC 122-7 5 Wiltshire Regt 183-4 11-2-37-1

EC 104 7 & 30-1 Vic Coll 47 & 102-8 6-1-7-0

EC 155-4 OEs 153 14-1-45-3

Season 206.1-30-537-48 @ 11.2 runs/wkt

A vigorous hitter with but little powers of defence. Very useful first change bowler, keeping a better length at the end of the season.

1900

EC 116 31 T D Stanger-Leathes 107-8 8.5-0-22-3

EC 116-5 20 Grange 183-6 16-1-55-0

EC 54 0 Castel 197 4.2-0-31-3

Ec 176-3 13 Athletics 165 6-0-32-0

EC 257 132 Vic Coll 42 9-2-17-8

& 20 4-1-7-2

EC 84 14 T H Knight 214-7 12-0-47-1

EC 174 24 St Martins 112-6 8-1-41-3

EC 187 4 Castel 77-5 14-0-22-4

EC 243 0 Grange 136-7 7-0-23-2

EC 189 29 Vic Coll 55 11-5-23-4

& 31 10-5-6-5

He was the Elizabeth College Sports Champion in 1901 receiving the Dobree Belt. He was senior heavyweight boxing champion in 1907, also playing 1st XV rugby as well as cricket. He was in the 97th Decca Infantry in the Indian army and was killed at the battle of Hanna in Mesopotamia in Jan 1916, his memorial being at Basra, Iraq.

H B Leapingwell at Sandhurst in 1904

Lt Averell Lecky (2765) was born in 1885 in Guernsey. He played football and cricket in Elizabeth College 1^st teams.

1902

EC 152 56 T D Stanger-Leathes 60

EC 89-9 13 Castel 157 1.3-0-2-2

EC 50 0 H F Morres 85-6

EC 55 0 & 89-9 0 Lincoln Regt 26

EC 78 20 & 53 10 Vic Coll 131 5-0-12-1 & 1-0

EC 194-9 0 Grange 128-5

EC 126 34 T D Stanger-Leathes 184

EC 200 73 & 41-0 Vic Coll 86 & 169-4 3-0-24-0

EC 132 10 St Martins 239-8

EC 195 4 Lincoln Regt 90

He was awarded his colours

1903

EC 53 0 A J L Darby 78

EC 103-6 1 HMS Aurora 162 3-0-21-0

EC 163 58* Leicestershire Reg 78

EC 184-1 H F Morres 182-6

EC 160 18 Vic Coll 69 & 65

EC 87 5 Grange 182-9

EC 93 0 Athletics 108

EC 87 0 Rangers 146-5 4-0-10-1

EC 173 13 Vic Coll 138

EC 149-5 38 R Gsy Artillery 55

EC 174 0 Grange 74

EC 151-8 2 Athletics 41

He left school and was a tea planter in Ceylon for a while. He joined the Royal Guernsey Militia and then joined the 2^nd Bn Leinster Regt (Royal Canadians). In 1909 he served in India and later served in West Africa suppressing Cannibalism until 1913. He departed Africa on board Akabo to Liverpool where he arrived on 18 Jul 1914. When war broke out he was sent to France and whilst there received a gunshot wound to the head and later died in a field hospital as a result of the wounds on 20 Oct 1914. He was buried at the Chapelle d’Armentiers Old Military Cemetery, N. France.

Capt William McAndrew Marshall (2875) was born in 1889 in Sialkot, India. He joined Elizabeth College in 1898 and left in 1906. Senior House Prefect, 1st XI Cricket in 1906, 2nd XI Football, 1906 Shooting VIII was in the first team to shoot the Ashburton. He was the editor of the Elizabethan 1904,5,6 and a member of the Dramatic Society.

1905

EC 170-2 Rangers 150

EC 60 0 Manchester Regt 200-9

EC 2^nd 122 8 Grange 2^nd 112

EC 2^nd 34 5 & 72 18 Athletics 2^nd 59 & 72-3

He was awarded 2^nd XI colours

1906

EC 152 22 V O Beuttler XI 127

EC 70 0 Rangers 132

EC 103 5 Grange 194

EC 2^nd 193 11 Athletics 144-6

EC 101 0 Athletics 124

EC 83 7 HMS Isis 84-3

EC 110 13 HMS Isis 130

EC 101 31 Grange 141 3-0-22-1

EC 105 11 Manchester Regt 71

EC 146 0 Vic Coll 124 & 95-8

EC 86 4 Athletics 185

EC 77 0 Rangers 89

EC 170 1 Grange 124

EC 176 6 Vic Coll 48 & 68

He went to Sandhurst in 1906 – 7 (25th) and was part of the shooting VIII and passed out 3rd. He became 2nd Lieutenant in the unattached list of the Indian Army 1908. He was appointed to 37th Dogras (Prince of Wales Own) in 1909 and promoted to Lieutenant in Aug 1909. In 1910 he passed the Higher Proficiency Persian Exam. War Service saw him in the Indian Army 1908-16, promoted to Captain in 1915. Having passed the Higher Proficiency Persian Examination he was anxious to do political work and transferred to Political Dept. and posted to Hunza- Nagar district, Gilgit. He re-joined his unit at outbreak of war, and served at the Depot for a time. He then re-joined his unit at the Front. In 1916 as Adjutant, he became assistant Political Officer of a large District near Baghdad. As Capt. in Mesopotamia in 1916, he was at the fall of Kut and entry into Baghdad. From an article in the Aberdeen University Review on David Cargill, an ancestor of William, stated, “William Macandrew Marshall of the 37th Dogras, was such a brilliant Arabic scholar that he was selected by General Maude to read his proclamation at the entry into Baghdad. He was afterwards appointed political agent at Nijif, the shrine of Ali the great Shiah saint, where he was assassinated by a fanatic, while his brother Douglas of the Lancashire Fusiliers fell at Gallipoli in 1915. I may say that Cargill’s descendants are inclined to trace their linguistic faculty, which is of a high order, to their missionary ancestor.” He died on 19 March 1918, assassinated aged 29, whilst on active service. (He is the brother of Douglas Cargill Marshall who was killed in the Dardanelles aged 22). A report featured in the Jersey Evening Post on 2nd September 1918. ”The inhabitants of Ledjef and Kerbela were mostly well disposed towards the forces. On 12th January some fired on the troops who were exercising near the town causing a few casualties. Two leading sheiks were to be punished but fled. After the incident on March 21st the Political officer in Jedjef (William Marshall) was murdered. No reason was ever established. He is buried in the Baghdad War Cemetery.

Capt Francis Dobree McCrea (3066) was born in Jamaica in 1894 where his father was in the Jamaica Constabulary. He played for Elizabeth College from 1910-12. He was also Senior Sports Champion in 1911 and 1912.

1910

EC 129 13 Masters XI 172

EC 124 0 E B Waite XI 169

EC 107-4 5* Athletics 155-8

EC 54-6 0 HMS Cumberland 161

EC 116 0 Vic Coll 169

EC 151 0 F A Mourant XI 157-9

EC 189 0 Col Carr-Ellison 124

EC 89 32* R Gsy Artillery 87

EC 118 17 Grange 63

EC 63 1 2^nd Bn Middlesex 233-6

EC 150 3 Grange 230

EC 60 4 Vic Coll 425-7

EC 82 E T Whitehead XI 301-8

EC 48 7 Rangers 190-4

He was awarded his colours

1911

EC 119 3 F W Mourant XI 199-7d

EC 91 0 Athletics 50 & 147-3

EC 142 0 Grange 113

EC 197 13 H F Morres XI 127-3

EC 110 7 R Gsy Artillery 71 & 91-8

EC 145 0 Royal Irish Reg 140

EC 69 0 & 68-4 Garrison 166

EC 139 3 H F Morres XI 204-7

EC 68 0 & 33-7 Vic Coll 74 & 229

EC 106 12 Garrison 98

EC 102 16 & 34-4 8 R Gsy Artillery 141

EC 164-9 8 Royal Irish Reg 265-5

EC 24 0 & 81-0 Grange 129-8

EC 118-5 21 Athletics 220-5d

EC 129 34 & 47-6 6 Vic Coll 226

1912

EC 64 16 & 51-5 6 V Beuttler XI 144

EC 60 4 Athletics 151

EC 60 7 & 16-1 7* Rangers 29 & 44

EC 98 0 & 76-7 24 Garrison 67

EC 73 0 C J Rawlinson XI 83

EC 65 12 Athletics 131

EC 95 33 Grange 221

EC 151 40 R Gsy Artillery 45 & 83-4

EC 142 E W Hutton XI 128

EC 164-6 2 Vic Coll 56-5

EC 79 21 Grange 117

EC 83 0 C J Rawlinson XI 146

He joined the 46 Bn Royal Canadian Artillery Regiment, was wounded in 1917 and was killed at the Somme in Sept 1918 at the age of 23. He is buried in the Crest Cemetery, Fontaine-Notre Dame, south-west of Cambria.

Capt F D McCrea CWGC.org