John William Washington Nason (4 August 1889 – 26 December 1916) was an English cricketer active from 1906 to 1914 who played for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

and Gloucestershire. He was born in Tewkesbury and was killed at Vlamertinge, near Ypres, Belgium during the First World War. He appeared in 57 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm slow. He scored 1,649 runs with a highest score of 139 and took ten wickets with a best performance of two for 24. Nason was educated in Hastings and at

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. During World War I he was commissioned as a

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in the Royal Sussex Regiment but transferred to the

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in September 1916 with the rank of Flying Officer. His squadron flew reconnaissance missions in

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aircraft in the final stages of the

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. He was shot down and killed on 26 December 1916.

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1889 births 1916 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge English cricketers Sussex cricketers Gloucestershire cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers Royal Sussex Regiment officers Royal Flying Corps officers British military personnel killed in World War I British Army personnel of World War I {{england-cricket-bio-1880s-stub