Geoffrey Anson
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| Full name | Geoffrey Frank Anson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 October 1922 Sevenoaks, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 December 1977 (aged 55) Hastings, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
| 1947 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 10 May 1947 Cambridge University v Essex | ||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 23 August 1947 Kent v Somerset | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 19 March 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Geoffrey Frank Anson (8 October 1922 – 4 December 1977) was an English cricketer and civil servant.[1] A right-handed batsman, he played ten first-class cricket matches during the 1947 English cricket season for Cambridge University and Kent County Cricket Club.[2] He also played cricket for a team of Europeans in Nigeria whilst serving in the British Colonial Service.
Anson was born at Sevenoaks in Kent in 1922 and educated at Harrow School, where he played cricket and captained the team during his final season in 1941.[3] Wisden considered that he might have been the "best schoolboy batsman of the year" and described him as being a "daring stroke player".[4] He initially went up to the University of Cambridge in 1941 and played cricket for the university team during the summer of 1942,[5] before serving in the armed forces during World War II. He was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1943[6] and served in the 4th Battalion, part of the Guards Armoured Division.[7] He was awarded the Military Cross in May 1945 whilst serving as a Lieutenant.[8] Anson was serving as a tank commander during Operation Veritable, an offensive along the Siegfried Line on the Dutch-German border near Nijmegen in February. He had dismounted to organise mine clearance parties to allow the capture of Frasselt by the 9th Cameronians.[9]