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Henry George Walters (6 November 1917 – 25 August 1944) was a
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er. He was a left-handed batsman who played for
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. He was born in
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and died during
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in the
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when serving as a Flight Sergeant with the
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. Walters made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1941–42 season, against
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. From the opening order, he scored 81 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 39 runs in the second, as Auckland won the match by a comfortable margin.


See also

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List of Auckland representative cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for Auckland cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons. A * John Ackla ...
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List of cricketers who were killed during military service This is a list of cricketers who were killed during military service. The cricketers are listed by war and divided into those who appeared in Test cricket and those only played first-class cricket. The conflicts featured on this list are, in chro ...


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Henry Walters
at Cricket Archive 1917 births 1944 deaths New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers New Zealand military personnel killed in World War II Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel Cricketers from Auckland {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1910s-stub