Francis Edgar Hugonin OBE (16 August 1897 – 5 March 1967) was an English soldier and cricketer.
In September 1946, when he held the rank of acting lieutenant colonel, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his gallant war service as a prisoner of war, during which he had shown great defiance of the Japanese, had destroyed enemy equipment, and had defended his men, even to the extent of taking beatings for others.
[2] Hugonin made his first-class cricket debut in 1927, when he played for Essex against Oxford University.
[7] On 29 October 1925, Francis Hugonin married Joan Mary Pennyman, the elder daughter of the Rev.
William Geoffrey Pennyman, Vicar of St Mark's, North Audley Street, Westminster.