Gerald Edward Livock DFC

Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)

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 AFC

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 (11 July 1897 in Newmarket, Suffolk

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, England

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 – 27 January 1989 in Blandford Forum, Dorset

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) was an English cricket

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er, aviator

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 and archaeologist

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. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper

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, he played first-class cricket

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 for various teams between 1923 and 1934.

Cricket career

After playing some Minor Counties Championship

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 matches for Cambridgeshire

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 in 1921, Livock made his first-class debut for Lord Cowdray's XI against the Rest of England in 1923

1923 English cricket season

-Honours:*County Championship - Yorkshire*Minor Counties Championship - Buckinghamshire*Wisden - Arthur Gilligan, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay, Cecil Parkin, Maurice Tate-External sources:*...

. In 1924 he played for the Straits Settlements

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 against the Federated Malay States

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, also playing for the combined Malaya cricket team

Malaya cricket team

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 in matches against Shanghai

Shanghai cricket team

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 and Hong Kong

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.

Returning to English cricket, he played three County Championship

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 matches for Middlesex

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 in 1925

1925 English cricket season

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, also playing in that season's Gentlemen v Players

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 match. He next played for Middlesex in 1927

1927 English cricket season

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, his top-level cricket career being restricted by his RAF

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 career, when he played against Warwickshire

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 and New Zealand. He also played a first-class match for the RAF against the Royal Navy

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 that season.

Following a second match for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States in 1930, he played three more first-class matches; for the RAF against the Army in 1932

1932 English cricket season

The 1932 English cricket season saw the beginning of England's Test matches against India. A team known as "All-India" toured, with one Test played, 25 other first-class matches and 12 lesser games...

, for the MCC

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 against Yorkshire

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 in 1933

1933 English cricket season

In the 1933 English cricket season, Yorkshire's dominance continued with a third successive championship.-Honours:*County Championship - Yorkshire*Minor Counties Championship - undecided...

 and for the Gentlemen of England against Australia in 1934

1934 English cricket season

The 1934 English cricket season saw England lose the Ashes they had won via Bodyline in 1932-3, with Don Bradman again the crucial difference between two very strong teams.-Honours:*County Championship - Lancashire...

. He also played cricket in Egypt

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 that year.

Honous and awards

• 20 September 1918 - Captain (Temporary Major) Gerald Edward Livock (Sea Patrol) is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
  Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
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   in recognition of gallantry against the enemy:

• 1 September 1929 - Squadron Leader Gerald Edward Livock, DFC is awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC)
  Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
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