Wallscourt Kelly

Laftanar Kanar Wallscourt Steen Kelly (16 ga Yuni 1895 - 10 ga Yuni 1952) ɗan wasan kurket ne na Australiya kuma jami'in rundunar sojojin Indiya ta Burtaniya.

Ɗan Alex Kelly ne, an haife shi a unguwar Elsternwick da ke wajen Melbourne a watan Yunin 1895.  Kelly ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Melbourne da Makarantar Grammar Geelong. Kelly ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sojojin Sarauta ta Australiya ta Farko a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, inda ya ga an yi yaƙi a Yammacin Yaƙin a matsayin Laftanar. An raunata shi a Polygon Wood a lokacin Yaƙin Ypres na Uku a watan Satumbar 1917,  kafin a naɗa shi cikin Rundunar Sojojin Indiya ta Burtaniya a watan Maris na 1918 a matsayin Laftanar na biyu a lokacin gwaji,  kuma an tabbatar da naɗinsa a watan Maris na 1919. Zuwa Nuwamba 1920, yana aiki tare da Dogras na 41 tare da matsayin kyaftin na wucin gadi,  matsayin da aka naɗa shi na dindindin a watan Satumbar 1922.

A lokacin da yake aiki a Birtaniya ta Indiya, Kelly ya buga wasan kurket na aji na farko sau huɗu ga ƙungiyar kurket ta Turai a Gasar Lahore daga 1925 zuwa 1928.[1] Yana wasa a matsayin mai buga ƙwallo a ɓangaren Turawa, ya ɗauki wickets 24 a matsakaicin 13.58; [2] ya ɗauki wicket guda ɗaya na 6 da 57 a kan Musulmai a 1925.[3] A shekarar 1938, ya yi yaƙi a yaƙin Waziristan tare da sojojin Indiya na asali a kan ƙabilu masu adawa.[4] Bayan ya yi ritaya daga Rundunar Sojojin Indiya ta Burtaniya a ranar 22 ga Fabrairu 1948 [5] ya koma Ostiraliya inda ya mutu a gidansa da ke Ivanhoe a Melbourne a watan Yuni 1952.[6]

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