Alan Charles Grenville Luther MC (17 September 1880 – 23 June 1961) was an English soldier and cricketer.
In August 1914, during the Battle of Le Cateau in the First World War, whilst lying wounded in no-man's-land, Luther was discovered by a German soldier who had lived in England before the war and appreciated the game of cricket; he took Luther to Le Cateau for treatment.
[2] Luther played cricket at various levels until his late forties, mostly as a batsman, including nine first-class matches for Sussex in 1908 and eight for MCC from 1908 to 1911.
[1] At The Oval in the late 1920s, where he was a coach for Surrey, he organized the net sessions for young club members; Ronald Mason remembers him as "tall and willowy with a shock of grey hair on a handsome head that swayed engagingly as he walked".
[1] He married Cecily Noel, the sister of a fellow officer from the Yorkshire Light Infantry, in London in July 1921.