Colin Boumphrey

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Colin Boumphrey (27 January 1897 – 1 February 1945) was an English cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Born in Liverpool, he studied at Shrewsbury School, where his brother Donald also studied. In World War I he served with the Royal Naval Air Service, becoming a Flight Sub-Lieutenant in 1917 and later a temporary Flight Lieutenant. After the war he joined the Royal Air Force and fought in the Russian Civil War, including Operation Kronstadt in 1919. He was mentioned in dispatches and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1920 for bravery in the Baltic. He played minor counties cricket for Cheshire (1920, 1926) and later appeared in one first-class match for the RAF against the Army at The Oval in 1932, scoring 31 runs. He was promoted to Squadron Leader in 1929 and retired from the RAF in 1939 due to ill health. He died in Aughton, near Ormskirk, in 1945 at age 48.