# James Sutcliffe

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{{short description|English cricketer and Royal Marines officer}}
{{For|the American composer and music critic|James Helme Sutcliffe}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = James Sutcliffe
|               image = 
|             country = England
|            fullname = James Frederick Sutcliffe
|            nickname = 
|          birth_date = 14 December 1876
|         birth_place = [Chatham](/source/Chatham%2C_Kent), [Kent](/source/Kent), England
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|7|14|1876|12|14|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [Cape Helles](/source/Cape_Helles), [Gallipoli](/source/Gallipoli),<br>[Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
|            heightft = 
|          heightinch = 
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling =
|                role = 
|              family = 
|               club1 = [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club)
|               year1 = 1911 
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            matches1 = 1
|               runs1 = 24
|            bat avg1 = 12.00
|           100s/50s1 = –/–
|          top score1 = 16
|      hidedeliveries = true
|  catches/stumpings1 = –/–
|                date = 9 January
|                year = 2010
|              source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/20416.html Cricinfo
}}

'''James Frederick Sutcliffe''' (14 December 1876 — 14 July 1915) was an [English](/source/English_people) first-class [cricket](/source/cricket)er and [Royal Marines](/source/Royal_Marines) officer.

The son of James Sutcliffe and his wife, Alice, he was born in December 1876 at [Chatham, Kent](/source/Chatham%2C_Kent).<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[Pen and Sword](/source/Pen_and_Sword)|isbn=978-1473864191|page=113}}</ref> He followed his father into the Portsmouth Battalion [Royal Marines](/source/Royal_Marines), initially serving as a [non-commissioned officer](/source/non-commissioned_officer). Sutcliffe was a well known cricketer in [Gosport](/source/Gosport),<ref name="NEWS">Sergt.-Major Sutcliffe Wounded. ''[Portsmouth Evening News](/source/The_News_(Portsmouth))''. 15 May 1915. p. 8</ref> and later made a single appearance in [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club) against [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Worcester](/source/New_Road%2C_Worcester) in the [1911 County Championship](/source/1911_County_Championship).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6874/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by James Sutcliffe|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=7 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as a [middle order batsman](/source/Batting_order_(cricket)), he was dismissed for 16 runs by [George Simpson-Hayward](/source/George_Simpson-Hayward) in Hampshire's first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 8 runs by [John Cuffe](/source/John_Cuffe).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8562.html|title=Worcestershire v Hampshire, County Championship 1911|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=7 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Sutcliffe served in the Royal Marines in the [First World War](/source/First_World_War). He was wounded in action in May 1915, at which point he held the [warrant officer](/source/warrant_officer) rank of [sergeant major](/source/Sergeant_major),<ref name="NEWS"/> with a commission to [lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) coming in the same month.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29177|date=1 June 1915|page=5208}}</ref> Shortly after he travelled with his battalion to take part in the [Gallipoli campaign](/source/Gallipoli_campaign), where he was killed in action in on or around 14 July 1915, with his body never being discovered or identified.<ref name="BOOK"/> His death was described as a "great loss" to the [Portsmouth Cathedral](/source/Portsmouth_Cathedral) choir. He was survived by his wife, Gladys Rosine Mary nee Mills, whom he married in 1912, and their son, James Denis.<ref name="BOOK"/> Sutcliffe was commemorated at the [Helles Memorial](/source/Helles_Memorial) and on the war memorial outside St Thomas's Church in [Old Portsmouth](/source/Old_Portsmouth), which in 1923 became [Portsmouth Cathedral](/source/Portsmouth_Cathedral).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3055173/james-frederick-sutcliffe/|title=Lieutenant James Frederick Sutcliffe|publisher=www.cwgc.org|accessdate=7 November 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1876 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:Military personnel from Kent
Category:Sportspeople from Chatham, Kent
Category:English cricketers
Category:Hampshire cricketers
Category:Royal Marines personnel of World War I
Category:Royal Marines officers
Category:British military personnel killed in World War I
Category:Cricketers from Kent

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