David Monaghan

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer and New Zealand Army soldier}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = David Monaghan

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| country = New Zealand

| fullname = David Wyatt Monaghan

| birth_date = 13 July 1922

| birth_place = Pahiatua, Wairarapa, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1944|1|27|1922|7|13}}

| death_place = Caserta, Campania, Italy

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| nickname =

| family = Harold Monaghan (father)

| batting = Unknown

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 19

| bat avg1 = 9.50

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 10

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–

| date = 2 April

| year = 2021

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/37936.html Cricinfo

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David Wyatt Monaghan (13 July 1922 – 27 January 1944) was a New Zealand first-class cricketer and New Zealand Army soldier.

The third son of the archdeacon and cricketer Harold Monaghan and his wife, Jessie, Monaghan was born at Pahiatua in July 1922.{{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 |volume=2nd |pages=426–7 |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |language=en}} He received his early education at Timaru on the South Island, before attending Christ's College, Christchurch. He was a talented sportsman, representing the college in cricket, football, athletics and swimming, in addition to being a champion gymnast in 1940.[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19440214.2.56?end_date=31-12-1944&items_per_page=10&query=%09David+Wyatt+Monaghan&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1940 Death of Athlete]. The New Zealand Herald. 14 February 1944. p. 5 He was nominated for a team of New Zealand schoolboys to tour Australia in 1939, but the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe led to the tour being cancelled.

Upon completing his education in 1940, Monaghan gained employment in the Public Trust Office in Timaru.[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19440205.2.64?items_per_page=10&query=%09David+Wyatt+Monaghan&snippet=true Obituary Singnalman D. W. Monaghan]. Press. 5 February 1944. p. 6 By 1943, he was serving in the New Zealand Army as a signalman in the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.

He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the South Island Army cricket team against the North Island Army cricket team at Wellington in February 1943.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22501/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by David Monaghan|publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-04-02 |url-access=subscription}} He made scores of 10 and 9 and was dismissed by Jack Lamason and Tom Pritchard respectively.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17376.html |title=North Island Army v South Island Army, 1942/43|publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-04-02 |url-access=subscription}}

By July 1943, Monaghan had gone to Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, where he saw action during the Italian campaign. He died from sickness in January 1944 at Caserta in Italy. He was buried at the Caserta War Cemetery. Monaghan's brother, Gerald, was also killed in the war.