Peter Whitehouse

Peter Whitehouse
Personal information
Full name Peter Michael William Whitehouse
Born (1917-04-27)27 April 1917
Birchington, Kent
Died 19 November 1943(1943-11-19) (aged 26)
Archi, Abruzzo, Italy
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1935 Berkshire
1936–1938 Oxford University
1937–1938 Kent
FC debut 10 June 1936 Oxford University v Minor Counties
Last FC 6 August 1938 Kent v Sussex
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 24
Runs scored 927
Batting average 28.96
100s/50s 0/7
Top score 91*
Balls bowled 2,815
Wickets 43
Bowling average 29.46
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/33
Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: CricInfo, 8 October 2018

Peter Michael William Whitehouse (27 April 1917 – 19 November 1943) was an English cricketer and British army offcier who played for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club. Whitehouse died on active service in Italy during World War II.

Whitehouse was born at Birchington in Kent in 1917, the son of Henry and Majorie Whitehouse who later lived at Middle Wallop in Hampshire.[1][2] He was educated at Marlborough College where he played in the cricket XI, before going up to New College, Oxford in 1936.[3][4] As a schoolboy he was thought of as a bowling all-rounder who bowled "with beautiful action and length"[5] and developed into a fine all-round player.[6] He had played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in 1935 and won a cricket Blue in 1938, playing 16 first-class matches for the University. He appeared in eight matches for Kent in 1937 and 1938.[3][7]

During World War II Whitehouse served in the 6th Battalion of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles of the Indian Army. The unit formed part of the 19th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 8th Indian Infantry Division. The division fought in Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Africa before it landed at Taranto in September 1943 and fought its way up the Italian peninsula, during which Whitehouse was killed at Archi in November 1943 aged 26.[1][3][4] He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Torino di Sangro in Chieti.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Peter Whitehouse, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  2. 1 2 Whitehouse, Peter Michael William, Casualty details, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  3. 1 2 3 Whitehouse Lieut. Peter Michael William, Obituaries during the war, 1943, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1944. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  4. 1 2 McCreary N (2017) The Coming Storm" Test and First-class Cricketers Killed in World War II, pp.218–220. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-08.)
  5. ↑ Podmore A (1934) 'Public School Cricket in 1933' in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1934, p.300. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-08.)
  6. ↑ Podmore A (1936) 'Public School Cricket in 1935' in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1936, p.315. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-08.)
  7. ↑ Peter Whitehouse, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-08.

Peter Whitehouse at ESPNcricinfo


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