Joseph Connaughton (cricketer)
Joseph Maurice Francis Connaughton (15 August 1918 – 12 February 1944) was an English first-class cricketer active 1939 who played for Middlesex.
He was born in Paddington and educated at The Oratory School.[1] During World War II he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery.[2] He was drowned off the Maldives after SS Khedive Ismail was torpedoed, and officially declared dead one year later.[3]
References
- ↑ McCrery, Nigel (30 July 2017). "The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two". Casemate Publishers. p. 40-43 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Connaughton, Joseph Maurice Francis". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- ↑ "Joseph Connaughton". Cricinfo.
Categories:
- 1918 births
- 1944 deaths
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- British Army personnel killed in World War II
- Deaths due to shipwreck at sea
- English cricketers
- Middlesex cricketers
- Military personnel from London
- People educated at The Oratory School
- Oxford University cricketers
- People declared dead in absentia
- Royal Artillery officers
- English cricket biography, 1910s birth stubs