BOMBING AT LORD’S
1918 INCIDENT RECALLED The battle-ground of many famous test matches, Lords’ cricket ground, on which an attendance limit of 15,000 has been placed in conformity with air raid precautions, is already war-scarred, for a bomb dropped on it from an enemy aircraft on March 8, 1918. In the pavilion the M.C.C. still preserves the splintered remains of an entrance door showing rents and holes.
Apparently not much damage was done to the ground, for in June of ihat year an English team played a Dominions team, with everyone in khaki, for the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops and King George’s Fund for Sailors, before a crowd of 10,000. The Dominions side, which included Lieutenant C. Kellaway and WarrantOfficer C. G. Macartney, won easily by 68 runs on the one innings completed by the sides in this one-day match. In the English team were Captain P. F. Warner, Private E. Hendren, Sergeant-Major H. T. W. Hardinge and Lance-Corporal G. T. S. Stevens.
Among other famous names that appear in the score sheets of later wartime matches arc Air-Mechanic J. B. Hobbs, Private F. E. Woolley, Lieutenant P. G. H. Fender, LanceCorporal G. Dunn, Colonel F. S Jackson and Private Philip Head-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 4
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202BOMBING AT LORD’S Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 4
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