Frank Smallwood

{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1888–1953)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

| fullname = Frank Graham Smallwood

| nickname =

| birth_date = 10 February 1867

| birth_place = Calcutta, Bengal Presidency,
British India

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|12|30|1867|2|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Poona, Bombay Presidency,
British India

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| batting = Unknown

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| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1893/94

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 15

| bat avg1 = 7.50

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 10

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 8 December

| year = 2022

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/frank-smallwood-34431 ESPNcricinfo

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Frank Graham Smallwood {{postnominal|CVO}} (10 February 1867 — 30 December 1919) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of Albert Edward and Margaret Anne Smallwood, he was born in British India at Calcutta in February 1867.{{cite book|title=Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War|year=1923|publisher=Rugby School|location=Rugby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNy0AAAAMAAJ|language=en}} He was educated at Rugby School, where he played for the school cricket team.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsVdAwAAQBAJ|title=Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918|last=Renshaw|first=Andrew|date=8 May 2014|publisher=A & C Black|page=469|isbn=978-1408832363}} From Rugby he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Smallwood graduated from there into the Royal Artillery (RA) as a lieutenant in July 1886.{{London Gazette|issue=25615|date=10 August 1886|page=3855}} He went to British India with the RA, taking part in the Sikkim expedition of 1888.{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register 1874–1904|first=A. T.|last=Mitchell|date=1904|volume=2|publisher=A. J. Lawrence|page=69|url=https://archive.org/details/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft |language=en}} In May 1891, he was seconded for service with the Indian Ordnance Service.{{London Gazette|issue=26168|date=2 June 1891|page=2926}} In India, Smallwood made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Bombay in the Bombay Presidency Match of August 1893.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14570/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Frank Smallwood|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 December 2022|url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 10 runs by Nasarvanji Bapasola in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by B. C. Machhliwala.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4043.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1893/94|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}

In the RA, Smallwood served in the Chitral Expedition of 1895, and was promoted to captain in July 1897.{{London Gazette|issue=26869|date=2 July 1897|page=3635}} He was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th Class in May 1906 in recognition of his service during the Prince and Princess of Wales' tour to India.{{London Gazette|issue=27913|date=15 May 1906|page=3324}} Promoted to major, he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in December 1911,{{London Gazette|issue=28559|date=8 December 1911|page=9364}} in connection with the Delhi Durbar of 1911. Having been appointed an assistant director of ordnance stores in India in June 1914,{{London Gazette|issue=28853|date=28 July 1914|page=5870}} Smallwood subsequently served in the First World War and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in October 1914.{{London Gazette|issue=28987|date=27 November 1914|page=9992}} Following the war, he was promoted to colonel in October 1919, with seniority from October 1918.{{London Gazette|issue=31622|date=28 October 1919|page=13222|supp=y}} Smallwood died suddenly from heart failure at King George's Hospital in Poona in December 1919.