Leslie Hancock (cricketer)

Leslie Frank Hancock OBE (25 October 1899 – 12 July 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

[4] He scored 24 runs in his two matches,[5] in addition to taking a single wicket with his right-arm medium-fast bowling, that of Wales' Cyril Rowland.

[8] Hancock later served in the Second World War with the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

While overseeing the construction of the Royal Air Force ALG B-12 at Ellon, Hancock was killed when the jeep he was travelling in struck a landmine near Maupertus-sur-Mer on 12 July.

[11] He was posthumously made an OBE in the 1945 New Year Honours for his services during the war.