Empire Cricket Booklet

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BERNARD HALL, RICHARD PARRY AND JONTY WINCH

the former award, he replied: 'I was never quite sure but whenever an order came to fire, I insisted on immediate response from my battery. We were not always sure whether our assortment of leg-breaks and googlies dropped on a length, but occasionally intelligence gave us credit for bagging a few useful Turkish wickets.' 56

and White in Palestine. The other Test players to lose their lives were Eric 'Bill' Lundie and Claude Newberry. A number of cricketers were decorated. Schwarz, Herby Taylor, 'Plum' Lewis (with bar) and Sid Pegler were awarded Military Crosses. Fellow Test cricketers, Philip Hands and Norman Reid - both recipients of the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order -were coincidentally sons of gentlemen who sat on the Western Province Cricket Union committee and took opposite sides in the debate over 'Krom' Hendricks. Aubrey Faulkner fought with distinction for the Royal Artillery, where he rose to the rank of major and won the Distinguished Service Order and the Order of the Nile. When asked about

Perhaps poignantly, the grave of

Major R.O. SCHWARZ MC King's Royal Rifle Corps, 18 November 1918

is but one of almost 11 000 Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves at Etaples on the French

The deputation which protested before the British parliament in 1909 against the new South African

colour-bar constitution. Left to right, standing: T. M. Mapikela, J. Gerrans,

D. Dwanya, D. Lenders Seated: M. J. Fredericks, Dr A. Abdurahman, W. P. Schreiner, Dr W. B. Rubusana, J. T. Jabavu Andre Odendaal notes the strong connections that these leade� had with South African sport: Mapikela was patron of cricket in Bloemfontein; Lenders, president of the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board and Diamond Fields Colonial Cricket Union; Fredericks,

president of the Cape District Cricket Union; Schreiner, a future president of the South African Rugby Football Board; Rubusana, president of the East London and Border Native Cricket Union; and Jabavu, president of the Frontier Cricket Club and donor of the Jabavu Cup for Inter-Town competition.

coast south of Boulogne. His was a British regiment. Also in the main part of the cemetery lie buried the casualties of white South African regiments. On the perimeter of the cemetery lie the segregated 'non-white' graves, Indian, Chinese, ('British') West Indian, and South African, for whom the gravestones also proclaim UNION IS STRENGTH, EENDRACHT MAKT MACHT. Here, far from home and in a foreign theatreofwar,restPrivatesPhuti, Koshelele,Makosini, Nedzingahe, Joseph, Mabandl, Thulo, Galanxana