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Cecil Abercrombie
Scottish naval officer, cricketer and rugby union footballer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cecil Halliday Abercrombie (12 April 1886 – 31 May 1916) was a Scottish international rugby union player, first-class cricketer, and an officer in the Royal Navy. Abercrombie passed out from the Britannia Royal Naval College into the Royal Navy in 1902, and shortly thereafter he served abord HMS Hyacinth in the British campaign in Somaliland, being part of the force that captured "Mullah" Hassan's stronghold in 1904. He would later serve aboard HMS Defence at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, during which he was killed in action.
![]() Abercrombie in 1915 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birth name | Cecil Halliday Abercrombie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1886-04-12)12 April 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mozufferpore, Bengal Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 31 May 1916(1916-05-31) (aged 30) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | North Sea, near Jutland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1913 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As a sportsman, he played rugby union at Test level for Scotland from 1910 to 1913, earning six caps. In cricket, he played at first-class level for the Royal Navy and Hampshire, scoring over 1,000 runs and making four centuries.