Harry Heath
Henry Francis Trafford ("Harry") Heath (19 December 1885 – 9 September 1967) was an Australian cricketer and clergyman.
Born in Kadina, South Australia, Heath appeared in three first-class matches for the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI and South Australia between 1919 and 1924 as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm slow-medium pace. He scored 35 runs with a highest score of 21 and took seven wickets with a best performance of five for 43.[1]
He served as a Methodist chaplain to the Australian armed forces in World War I.[2] He married Irene Whellas Bain at the United Free Church of Scotland in Aberdeen on 12 September 1919.[3] They returned to South Australia in 1920, but a few years later they moved to Scotland, where he became a minister in the United Free Church in Edinburgh in 1926.[4] He died in Edinburgh on 9 September 1967.
Notes
- ^ Harry Heath at CricketArchive
- ^ "Chaplains: Appointments, Terminations, Etc". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 337–38. 21 February 1918. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Australian Chaplains in WW1". ww1chaplains.gravesecrets.net. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Rev. H. F. T. Heath". Saturday Journal: 14. 20 February 1926. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
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