Rupert Hickmott
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Rupert George Hickmott was a first class cricketer and soldier. He was born in 1894 in Christchurch
, New Zealand and played 17 matches for Canterbury as a right-handed batsman between 1911/12 and 1914/15. He scored 778 runs, recording a century and 4 fifties and took 11 wickets at 27.27 with a best of 4 for 5. He died fighting on the Somme on September 16 1916 at the age of 22.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, New Zealand and played 17 matches for Canterbury as a right-handed batsman between 1911/12 and 1914/15. He scored 778 runs, recording a century and 4 fifties and took 11 wickets at 27.27 with a best of 4 for 5. He died fighting on the Somme on September 16 1916 at the age of 22.