Colonel John Cabourn Hartley (15 November 1874 – 8 March 1963), known as Jock Hartley, was an English

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Cricket career

Hartley was educated at

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and

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

. He played first-class cricket for

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from 1895 to 1897 and

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from 1895 to 1898. He then went on to play for

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(MCC) in first-class fixtures until the 1926 season. He was vice-captain of the MCC team in New Zealand in 1922-23, but captained most of the matches owing to an injury to the captain,

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. Hartley played two

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for

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on their tour to South Africa in 1905-06, but with little success. His best first-class bowling figures were 8 for 161 for Oxford University in the first innings in Oxford's victory over

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in 1896. He also took 3 for 78 in the second innings and top-scored with 43 in Oxford's first innings. He made his highest score of 84 not out at the age of 50 when he captained MCC in a match against

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in 1925.

Military career

Hartley was commissioned into the Army as a

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in the

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on 13 July 1898, and was promoted to

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on 2 August 1899. He served with the 2nd battalion of his regiment in South Africa during the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

, where he was present at the

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(December 1899), engagements at Pieter's Hill, Hussar Hill and Hlangwani (February 1900), and the subsequent

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in late February 1900. In the following months he served in the

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, including the engagement at Rooidam (May 1900). After the end of the war in South Africa in June 1902, Hartley resigned his commission on 26 November 1902. He re-enlisted for service in the

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, being wounded twice and mentioned in dispatches four times. He was awarded the

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(DSO) in the

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