page_title: David Macindoe
section_title: World War II and after
hierarchical_section_title: David Macindoe / World War II and after
caption_attribution_description: English: Lupton's Tower, Eton College
context_page_description: Major David Henry Macindoe MC was an English cricketer. Macindoe was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. His bowling was characterised with a long run-up and a high arm action. The son of Patrick Macindoe and Cicely Broadbent, he was born at Eton, and educated at Eton College.
context_section_description: Macindoe served in World War II, by 1940 he was serving in the Royal Artillery holding the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.  He was awarded the Military Cross in 1945, with an announcement being made in the London Gazette on 10 April 1945.  He left the military in September 1946, upon resigning his commission he was honourably granted the rank of Major.
  After the war he returned to Christ Church, Oxford, where in 1946 he was the President of the university's Vincent's Club.  Returning to the university cricket team, he made ten further first-class appearances for Oxford University in 1946, the last of which came against Cambridge University.  In the 1946 season, he took 34 wickets at an average of 27.23, with best figures of 6/61, which came against Lancashire.  This brought the total number of wickets he took for Oxford University to 149, which came at an average of 27.80.  His total number of runs scored for the university stood at 747 runs at an average of 14.94.  After the war he also resumed playing for Buckinghamshire, playing for the county in the 1947 season and making ten appearances in that season.
  In 1949, he began his teaching career at Eton College, where in his youth he had been educated.  He taught English and Latin, as well as coaching cricket at the college.  He was part of the Territorial Army in 1952, which coincided with him heading the Combined Cadet Force at Eton.  His role as master of college lasted until 1960.  Macindoe along with Claude Taylor, who was his predecessor in the cricket role at Eton, as well as his former Buckinghamshire teammate, was the joint-author of the book Cricket Dialogue.  He ended his teaching career as the Vice-Provost of Eton.
caption: Macindoe taught at Eton College for many years, eventually becoming its Vice-Provost
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