Thomas Marshall Percy Grace (11 July 1890 – 8 August 1915), known as Hāmi Grace, was a New Zealand
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played in two
first-class matches for
Wellington
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from 1911 to 1914. He was killed in action during the
Gallipoli campaign in
World War I
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.
See also
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List of Wellington representative cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who have represented the New Zealand-based Wellington cricket team in either a first-class, List A or Twenty20 match.
Wellington's inaugural first-class match commenced on 28 November 1873, against Auckland cricket ...
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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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1890 births
1915 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Cricketers from Waikato
New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I
New Zealand Army officers
New Zealand Māori soldiers
New Zealand Māori sportspeople
People educated at Wellington College, Wellington
New Zealand Military Forces personnel of World War I
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