Vivian Claude Kavanagh (2 June 1882 – 9 August 1917) 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 one
first-class match for
Auckland in 1912/13.
He was also a leading
hockey player, who represented Auckland over many years as a half-back.
He fought in the
Second Boer War,
and enlisted to fight in
World War I. He was killed in action on the
Ypres Salient, and is buried at the
Prowse Point War Cemetery.
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
References
External links
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1882 births
1917 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland
New Zealand male field hockey players
New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I
New Zealand military personnel of the Second Boer War
Burials at Prowse Point Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
New Zealand Military Forces personnel of World War I
New Zealand Army soldiers
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