| 词条 | Alec Wills |
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| name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Alec Percy Stanley Wills | birth_date = 11 March 1911 | birth_place = Trincomalee, Eastern Province, British Ceylon | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1941|11|7|1911|3|11}} | death_place = Kallang, Singapore | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Unknown | club1 = | year1 = | role = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 3 | bat avg1 = – | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 3* | deliveries1 = 48 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 2 March | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/23042.html Cricinfo }} Alec Percy Stanley Wills (11 March 1911 – 7 November 1941) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Enlisting in the Royal Air Force from Haileybury in 1932, Wills played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team, before being posted to Malaya in the Second World War, where he was killed in a plane accident in November 1941. Life and military careerBorn at Trincomalee in British Ceylon, Wills was educated in England at Haileybury.[1] After leaving Haileybury, Wills was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer in January 1932,[2] with comfirmation in the rank in December 1932.[3] He was promoted to the rank of flying officer in July 1933.[4] Three years later, in July 1936, Wills was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant.[5] He played cricket for the Royal Air Force cricket team in 1936, in a minor match against the Royal Navy at Lord's, with Wills excelling in the match with a half century and bowling figures of 6 for 71.[1] He featured again for the Royal Air Force in a minor match against the Army, taking 5 for 60 in the Army's first-innings.[1] He made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team against the touring New Zealanders in 1937 at Portsmouth.[6] Batting once during the match, he ended the Combined Services first-innings unbeaten on 3, while across both of the New Zealanders innings' he bowled a total of eight overs, conceding 36 runs.[7] At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was posted to British Malaya as a pilot instructor.[1] Wills was killed in an accident on 7 November 1941, when the Tiger Moth he was flying was hit from behind by a landing Buffalo of 243 Squadron at Kallang.[1] He was buried at Kranji War Cemetery.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |page=139-40 |volume=2nd volume |isbn=1526706989 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ&dq |language=en}} 2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33787|date=5 January 1932|page=124}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33896|date=27 December 1932|page=8294}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33973|date=29 August 1933|page=5668}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=34321|date=8 September 1936|page=5793}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33923/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Alec Wills |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-02 |url-access=subscription}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16378.html |title=Combined Services v New Zealanders, 1937 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-02 |url-access=subscription}} External links
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