Eric Hill
Cricket Player
1923 – 2010
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Who was Eric Hill?
Eric Hill DFC DFM played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club as an opening batsman between 1947 and 1951, later serving as captain of the second team, a long-serving committeeman for the county, and as a journalist covering cricket for the local newspaper, the Somerset County Gazette, and as a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. In the Second World War, he was a navigator on daring and important reconnaissance missions for the Royal Air Force, and was decorated for his courage.
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- Born
- Jul 9, 1923
Taunton - Nationality
- England
- Education
- Taunton School
- Died
- Jul 26, 2010
Williton
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on July 23, 2013
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