Walter Malcolm (25 December 1893 – 23 December 1917) was a New Zealand

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er. He played one first-class match for

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during the 1914–15 season.Walter Malcolm

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. Retrieved 16 May 2016. He was killed in action during World War I.Malcolm, Walter
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 16 May 2016. Malcolm was born at Blenheim in the

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of New Zealand in 1893, the son of James and Emily Malcolm. He had family in Dunedin and moved to the city where he worked as a maltster for Wilson's Malt Extract Company.Service record
Retrieved 20 November 2023.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 88. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) His grandfather, James Malcolm, was one of the early settlers of the city and was a Commodore for the Union Steamship Company. He married Ethel Jeffs in Dunedin in December 1915. A club cricketer for The Grange club in Dunedin, Malcolm showed "promise" as a teenager. During the 1911–12 season he headed the team's batting averages despite being the youngest member of the side at only 16, drawing praise in the Dunedin press. After playing for the Otago junior side as early as 1910–11, Malcolm played his only first-class match in February 1915. Playing against Southland at Rugby Park in Invercargill, he scored a toal of 18 runs in the match, including 16 in Otago's second innings.Walter Malcolm
CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 November 2023. He led the Grange Club batting averages again in 1916–17, and was considered by some as "the most promising batsman in Otago", but with World War I intervening the chances for him to play representative cricket for the provincial side were limitedAs well as cricket, Malcolm also played rugby union for the Union Football Club in Dunedin. After initially serving on the home front in the Signal Corps, Malcolm enlisted in the 3rd battalion of the

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in February 1917.Walter Malcolm
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. Retrieved 20 November 2023. He arrived at

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in September and was in France by the end of October, initially at

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. He arrived at the front on 15 December and was serving as a private when he was killed in action near Ypres on 23 December. He was aged 23. Malcolm is buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.Renshaw A ed (2014) ''Wisden on the Great War'', p. 347. London: John Wisden & Co. . His son, who was named Walter, was born in January 1918 at Dunedin. His wife later remarried.

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* 1893 births 1917 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Blenheim, New Zealand New Zealand military personnel killed in World War I New Zealand Military Forces personnel of World War I New Zealand Army soldiers {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1890s-stub

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