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15 June 1888 Ware, Hertfordshire, England |
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6 June 1945 (aged 56) Hove, Sussex, England |
John Noel Pelly CBE (15 June 1888 – 6 June 1945) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer.
The son of Edmund Nevill Richard Pelly and Emma Mary Fowler, he was born in June 1888 at Ware, Hertfordshire.[1] He graduated from the Britannia Royal Naval College and in May 1908 he was a sub-lieutenant.[2] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in December 1910.[3] He served in the First World War and shortly after the conclusion of the war he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in December 1918.[4] His next promotion, to commander, came in June 1925.[5] The following year he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's.[6] Batting twice in the match, Pelly was dismissed in the navy first-innings without scoring by Kenneth Mackessack, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by Robert Melsome.[7] Pelly was placed on the retired list at his own request in June 1934, at which point he was granted the rank of captain.[8] He came out of retirement during the Second World War and was placed in command of the HMS King Alfred shore establishment at Hove in 1939.[9] He was made a CBE in the 1942 Birthday Honours.[10] He contiuned to command HMS King Alfred throughout the war, before collapsing suddenly and dying at the establishment on 6 June 1945.[9]
References[]
- ↑ "Captain John Noel Pelly". www.thepeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p40106.htm#i401060. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "No. 28213". 8 January 1909. p. 232. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28213/page/232
- ↑ "No. 28452". 2 January 1911. p. 5. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28452/supplement/5
- ↑ "No. 31123". 14 January 1919. p. 716. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31123/page/716
- ↑ "No. 33063". 3 July 1925. p. 4452. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33063/page/4452
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by John Pelly". CricketArchive. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31995/First-Class_Matches.html. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Army v Royal Navy, 1926". CricketArchive. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11990.html. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "No. 34065". 29 June 1934. p. 4140. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34065/supplement/4140
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 (in en) Shipbuilding and Shipping Record (65th ed.). pp. 575. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Crw-AQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ "No. 35586". 5 June 1942. p. 2481. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35586/page/2481
External links[]
- Player profile: J from ESPNcricinfo
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