Duncan Pailthorpe
{{short description|English cricketer, physician, and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Duncan Pailthorpe
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Duncan Westlake Pailthorpe
| birth_date = 8 December 1890
| birth_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|12|21|1890|12|8|df=yes}}
| death_place = Alton, Hampshire, England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = Europeans
| year1 = 1928/29
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 17
| bat avg1 = 8.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 17
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 25 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/duncan-pailthorpe-32449 Cricinfo
}}
Duncan Westlake Pailthorpe {{postnominal|MC}} (8 December 1890 – 21 December 1971) was an English first-class cricketer, medical doctor, and an officer in the British Army.
Life and military career
The son of J. E. Pailthorpe, he was born at Southampton in December 1890. He was educated at Epsom College, before matriculating to the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School.{{cite web|url=https://archive.epsomcollege.org.uk/1889-1914/OE_Biographies/1890-1914.pdf|title=Index of Old Epsomian Biographies between 1890 and 1914|website=www.epsomcollege.org.uk|accessdate=25 December 2023}} From there, he gained a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a temporary lieutenant at the start of the First World War,{{London Gazette|issue=28873|date=18 August 1914|page=6498}} with a temporary appointment to captain following in August 1915.{{London Gazette|issue=29285|date=3 September 1915|page=8827|supp=y}} Pailthorpe was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in September 1916, for gallantry and conspicuous bravery when attending to the wounded, with little regard for his own personal safety.{{London Gazette|issue=29760|date=22 September 1916|page=9279|supp=y}} In February 1918, he had been promoted to the full rank of captain.{{London Gazette|issue=30526|date=12 February 1918|page=2047|supp=y}} He was awarded a bar to his MC in September 1918, for collecting the wounded during a raid while under heavy fire. Working until daylight to achieve that end, he then went back out to confirm that a missing soldier was deceased and carried his body back to British lines.{{London Gazette|issue=30901|date=13 September 1918|page=10899|supp=y}}{{cite journal|date=21 September 1918|title=The War: Casulaties in the medical services|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=2|issue=3012|pages=327–331 |doi=10.1136/bmj.2.3012.327 |pmid=20769193 |pmc=2341837 }} One month prior to the end of the war, he was made a temporary major,{{London Gazette|issue=31001|date=8 November 1918|page=13262|supp=y}} a rank which he relinquished after the war, in February 1919.{{London Gazette|issue=31344|date=16 May 1919|page=6189|supp=y}}
In March 1921, Pailthorpe was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army until March 1923.{{London Gazette|issue=32477|date=4 October 1921|page=7856|supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=32808|date=23 March 1923|page=2238}} He was promoted to major in August 1926.{{London Gazette|issue=33193|date=20 August 1926|page=5516}} He later served in British India, where he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Muslims at Lahore in the 1928–29 Lahore Tournament.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14255/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Duncan Pailthorpe|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by Jahangir Khan in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 17 runs by the same bowler.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12975.html|title=Europeans v Muslims, Lahore Tournament 1928/29 (Final)|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} He retired from active military service in April 1934.{{London Gazette|issue=34046|date=1 May 1934|page=2789}}
In addition to playing cricket, Pailthorpe also played rugby union and was a member of the Middlesex Rugby XV. He was married to Barbara Martin at St James' Church in Southampton in April 1930.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003142/19300426/172/0008|title=At West End church|work=Hampshire Advertiser|location=Southampton|page=8|date=26 April 1936|access-date=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} Pailthorpe died in December 1971 at Alton, Hampshire.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=32449}}
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Category:Cricketers from Southampton
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Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Recipients of the Military Cross