lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling debutagainst tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate role source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
derbyshire balls 6 3 june 1916 17 july 1909 1 5 / & ndash ; 1909 & ndash ; 12 2011 14 april 1890 left-arm slow hampshire & ndash ; england zillebeke , belgium somerset & ndash ; left-handed leonard sutton leonard cecil leicester sutton somerset half way tree , kingston , jamaica first-class 17 may batsman http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/3/3837/3837.html cricketarchive first-class 1912 171 1890 4 14 yes & ndash ; somerset & ndash ; / & ndash ; 17 leonard sutton

leonard sutton

leonard cecil leicester sutton -lrb- 14 april 1890 -- 3 june 1916 -rrb- played first-class cricket for somerset from 1909 to 1912 .
he was born at half way tree , kingston , jamaica and died at zillebeke , belgium in the ypres area of fighting in the first world war .
sutton was a left-handed middle - or lower-order batsman and an occasional slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler .
he was educated at king 's school , bruton where he was described in the school magazine as `` a good hard-hitting bat with plenty of strokes , notably an excellent off-drive , a magnificent shot just behind point , a good late cut and a fine powerful pull . ''
he also opened the bowling for the school team .
he was still at school when he made his first appearances for somerset : in his debut match against hampshire at southampton in may 1909 he made 30 in somerset 's second innings after hampshire enforced the follow on ; that was to be his highest score in first-class cricket .
in 1912 , sutton appeared in 11 of somerset 's first-class games , but he made only 118 runs in total with a highest score of only 24 , and he did not appear in first-class cricket after this season .
sutton was a lance-sergeant in the canadian infantry -lrb- central ontario regiment -rrb- at the time of his death in the first world war .
his name is commemorated on the menin gate at ypres .
the king 's bruton magazine indicates that he was attached to the 4th canadian mounted rifles , though cmr records on the web do not support this .
