Charles Backman
Australian cricketer
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Charles James "Rappie" Backman (14 April 1884 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for South Australia in the 1911–12 Sheffield Shield season.[1][2] He was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign[3] and was the first Australian cricketer who played in the Sheffield Shield to be killed in World War I.[4]
Adelaide, South Australia
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
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| Full name | Charles James Backman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 April 1884 Adelaide, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 25 April 1915 (aged 31) Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1911/12 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 April 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Family
One of the nine children of Kaspar Swanton Charles Maclean Bachman (1848-1920),[5] and Mary Anne Backman (1853-1935), née Reid,[6][7] Charles James Bachman (known as Backman), was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 14 April 1884.[8]
One of his brothers, Edward John Backman (1890-1935),[9] and one of his brothers-in-law, Arthur John Benton (-1917),[10] also served in the First AIF.
Military service
Employed as a boilermaker, Backman enlisted in the First AIF on 19 August 1914,[11] served overseas and, as a member of the 10th Australian Infantry Battalion, he took part in the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on Sunday, 25 April 1915.