fullname years death_date death_place birth_place statsend originalteam birth_date guernsey article_title name
frank leslie lugton 1913 -- 1914 29 july 1916 near villers-bretonneux , france northcote , victoria 1914 clifton hill 4 november 1893 17 frank lugton
 frank lugton
frank lugton

frank leslie lugton -lrb- 4 november 1893 -- 29 july 1916 -rrb- was an australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for victoria and australian rules football for melbourne in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
as a cricketer he was as right-handed batsman and fast bowler .
lugton made his vfl debut in 1913 and the following summer played five sheffield shield games for the victorian cricket team , making 218 runs at 31.14 and taking nine wickets at 34.00 .
he returned to the vfl for the 1914 season before enlisting in the military .
lugton survived the fighting in gallipoli but went on to serve in france where he was killed in 1916 , near villiers-bretonneux .
he was the first sheffield shield cricketer to lose his life in the war .
