Bill Watkins (cricketer, born 1923)
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Fullname
William Martin Watkins
Died15 March 2005 (aged 82)
Killay, Glamorgan, Wales
Killay, Glamorgan, Wales
BattingRight-handed
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| Full name | William Martin Watkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 January 1923 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 March 2005 (aged 82) Killay, Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break googly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1950 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 July 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Watkins DFC (18 January 1923 – 15 March 2005) was a Welsh cricketer and decorated World War II aviator. Watkins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm leg break googly. He was born at Swansea, Glamorgan.
Watkins served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, enlisting when he was 18 in 1941 and serving with 514 Squadron at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. During the course of the war he took part in 31 missions over Germany in his Lancaster bomber, earning him by war's end the Distinguished Flying Cross.[1]