Denys March Witherington (25 July 1921 – 16 February 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army soldier.
He was educated in Cambridge at The Leys School,[1] where he was a talented schoolboy cricketer who played in the Public School's match at Lord's.
[5] After missing out on a blue in 1939,[2] his studies were interrupted by the onset of the Second World War.
During the war he served as a private with the North Lancashire Loyal Regiment, serving in the North African campaign and later the Italian campaign, where he was killed in action during a German counterattack in the Battle of Anzio in February 1944.
[3][1] His brother, John, had been killed two years previously when his bomber was shot down over Germany.