Joseph Connaughton (cricketer)
English cricketer (1918–1944)
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Joseph Maurice Francis Connaughton (15 August 1918 – 12 February 1944) was an English first-class cricketer active 1939 who played for Middlesex.
He was born in Paddington and educated at The Oratory School.[1] During World War II he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery.[2] He was drowned off the Maldives after SS Khedive Ismail was torpedoed, and officially declared dead one year later.[3]
