Frank Lugton

Who was Frank Lugton?

Frank Leslie Lugton was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. As a cricketer he was as right-handed batsman and fast bowler.

Lugton made his VFL debut in 1913 and the following summer played five Sheffield Shield games for the Victorian cricket team, making 218 runs at 31.14 and taking nine wickets at 34.00. He returned to the VFL for the 1914 season before enlisting in the military. Lugton survived the fighting in Gallipoli but went on to serve in France where he was killed in 1916, near Villiers-Bretonneux. He was the first Sheffield Shield cricketer to lose his life in the war.