Cecil Wigglesworth
Cricket Player
1893 – 1961
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Who was Cecil Wigglesworth?
Cecil George Wigglesworth was an English RAF officer and cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played a first-class match for the Royal Air Force against the Royal Navy in August 1927. In 1930, he played for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States in Kuala Lumpur.
In the RAF he reached the rank of Air Commodore. By some accounts he was the original of Biggles. He served in Iceland during the Second World War, where one of his fellow officers was the original of Just William.
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- Born
- Oct 17, 1893
Tadcaster - Nationality
- England
- Lived in
- Tadcaster
- Died
- Aug 8, 1961
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on July 23, 2013
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