请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Ernest Hood
释义

  1. Cricket

  2. Schoolmastering and war career

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ernest Hood
| fullname = Ernest Hugo Meggeson Hood
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|8|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Burnby, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|8|1|1915|8|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
| bowling = Left-arm (unknown style)
| club1 = Somerset
| year1 = 1935
| columns = 1
| column1 = FC
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 6
| bat avg1 = 3.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 4
| deliveries1 = 78
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 0/43
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 22 December 2015
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3632/3632.html CricketArchive {{subscription required}}
}}

Ernest Hugo Meggeson Hood DSO, CdG (27 August 1915 – 1 August 1968), known as Hugo Hood, was an English war hero, schoolmaster and, for one game, a first-class cricketer.[1] He was a left-arm bowler who played for Somerset.[2][3] He was born at Burnby, Pocklington, Yorkshire and died in Scarborough.

Cricket

Hood was educated at Wellington College, where he opened the bowling for the first-eleven cricket team and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1] It was while at Cambridge that he made a single first-class cricket appearance for Somerset during the 1935 season, against Cambridge University; he never played for the Cambridge eleven, and his qualification for Somerset (which would have been needed had he played in competitive games such as the County Championship) appears to be dubious. From the tailend, he scored 2 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 4 runs in the second. He bowled 13 overs in the match, conceding 43 runs.

Schoolmastering and war career

On graduation from Cambridge University, Hood became a school teacher in Somerset, and also joined the Somerset Light Infantry as a second lieutenant in the reservists.[1] He was a captain at Gibraltar in 1942, but then transferred to be a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which parachuted military personnel behind enemy lines to encourage local resistance and guerrilla activities and to prepare for an Allied forces advance.[1] After a drop into the Balkans was abandoned, he joined Operation Jedburgh and was parachuted into France, near Dijon. Late in the Second World War, he took part in three similar missions in Burma (Myanmar) codenamed Operations Cheetah, Zebra and Mongoose; in the first of these he led his troops through 120 miles of jungle.[1] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and the citation stated that in Operation Cheetah he had inflicted 616 casualties on the enemy, losing only five of his own men in the process; he was also awarded the Croix de Guerre for his SOE work in France.[1]

Hood retired from the British army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; he applied for other public service jobs but his health was not good enough, though he remained on military reserve lists until 1965.[1] Instead he returned to schoolmastering, teaching French and geography at Scarborough College and coaching the hockey and cricket teams; he was noted by his pupils as somewhat eccentric.[1] He played cricket for Scarborough Cricket Club.

On 11 July 1968, he was knocked down by a car near the school where he taught, and he died from his injuries in hospital three weeks later.[1]

References

1. ^{{Cite book | title = Somerset Cricketers, 1919–1939| authors = Stephen Hill and Barry Phillips| edition = 2017 | publisher = Halsgrove | ISBN = 978-0-85704-306-1 | pages = 257–260}}
2. ^{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3632/3632.html| title = Ernest Hood| publisher = cricketarchive.com | subscription = yes| accessdate = 16 February 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14258.html | title = Ernest Hood | publisher = espncricinfo.com | accessdate = 17 February 2018}}

External links

  • [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3632/3632.html Ernest Hood] at Cricket Archive {{subscription required}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hood, Ernest}}

9 : 1915 births|1968 deaths|People from Pocklington|English cricketers|Somerset cricketers|Sportspeople from Yorkshire|People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire|Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Companions of the Distinguished Service Order

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/10 13:08:10