Kenneth Woodroffe

Kenneth Herbert Clayton Woodroffe (9 December 1892 – 13 May 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer who was killed in action during World War I.

Woodroffe was born in Lewes, East Sussex and was educated at Marlborough College. He was a Right-hand batsman and bowled Right-arm fast. He played for Hampshire (1912–1913), Cambridge University (1913–1914), and Sussex (1914).

On 9 May 1915, as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade, attached to 2nd Welsh Regiment, he was killed in action near Neuve-Chappelle, France, aged 22.[1][2] He was also Mentioned in Despatches. His 19-year-old brother, 2nd Lieutenant Sidney Clayton Woodroffe (8th Rifle Brigade), was killed two months after him in 1915 while showing such bravery that he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

References
  1. CWGC entry
  2. "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 5 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.


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