Frank Knox (cricketer)
Frank Pery Knox DSO (23 January 1880 – 1 February 1960) was an English first-class cricketer active 1899–1902 who played for Surrey.[1]
He was born in Clapham, the fifth son of Sir Ralph Henry Knox, a civil servant and former cricketer, and Georgina Augusta Chance. Neville Knox was his younger brother.[2] He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and died in Hove.
During World War I, he was an officer in the Army Service Corps; along with many other officers he was awarded the DSO in the 1918 Birthday Honours "for services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders."[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Frank Knox at ESPNcricinfo
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 1905. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ Renshaw, Andrew (8 May 2014). Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918. A&C Black. p. 522. ISBN 9781408832363.
- ^ "No. 30716". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1918. p. 6459.
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