Henry Power (cricketer)
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Henry Ross Power (31 December 1897 – 12 May 1963) was an English first-class
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er and an officer in the
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.


Life and military career

The son of Kingsmill Power, he was born at
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in December 1897. Power was educated at
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, after which he went to British India to attend the Cadet College at Wellington, graduating from there into the
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(BIA) as a
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in April 1916, which was nearly two years into the First World War. He was attached to the
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, with whom promotion to lieutenant followed in April 1917. Following the end of the war, he was promoted to
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in April 1920. While serving in India, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for the
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. The first came for the
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against the Hindus at Lahore in 1927–28
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, with his second coming for the Punjab Governor's XI against Northern India in March 1928; In the latter match, he scored a
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with a score of 136. Power was promoted to
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in the BIA in April 1934, while in September of that year he was appointed to be an instructor at the Indian Military Academy. Having vacated his appointment as an instructor in August 1937, Power would go onto serve in the Second World War. During the war, he was promoted to
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in April 1942, Following the end of the war, he promoted to colonel in May 1947, antedated to April 1945. He retired from active service in September 1948, two years after the end of the war and just over a year after Indian Independence; the latter event resulting in his transfer to the special list of the British Army. After the end of his military career, he maintained a military association by being a member of the Territorial Army, with the 10th/11th Surrey Battalion. Power was made an Order of the British Empire in the
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and was later appointed a deputy lieutenant for
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in September 1959. He was awarded the
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in September 1961, having resigned his commission in the TA in the same month. Power died in May 1963 at
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. He was married to Josephine Lesley St. John Wilson, the daughter of
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, who was the
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from 1929 to 1950.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Power, Henry 1897 births 1963 deaths Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea People from Kensington Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea People educated at Rossall School British Indian Army officers Indian Army personnel of World War I English cricketers Europeans cricketers Indian Army personnel of World War II Officers of the Order of the British Empire Deputy lieutenants of Surrey