Reginald James Somerville (9 October 1918 – 13 August 1979) was an English first-class cricketer.
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Full name | Reginald James Somerville | ||||||||||||||
Born | 9 October 1918 Camberwell, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 13 August 1979(1979-08-13) (aged 60) Lambeth, London, England | ||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 June 2019 |
Somerville served in the Second World War, enlisting in the South Staffordshire Regiment as second lieutenant in September 1941.[1] He ended the war with the temporary rank of captain.[2] Following the war, he became banker by profession. Somerville played a single first-class cricket match for D. R. Jardine's XI against Oxford University at Eastbourne in 1955.[3] Batting once in the match, Somerville was dismissed for 3 runs by Jimmy Allan in the D. R. Jardine's XI first-innings.[4] He died at Lambeth in August 1979.