Robin Evelyn Whetherly MC (23 July 1916 – 27 November 1943) was an English first-class cricketer and soldier who died in action in World War II.
The son of Lieutenant Colonel William Stobart Whetherly, a decorated veteran of the Boer War and World War I, Whetherly was educated at Harrow School, where he kept wicket for the first XI in his final year, 1935, before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford, to read history.
[2] After working for a travel agency, Whetherly accepted a commission in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards on the outbreak of World War II.
For his actions during the battle, in which he saved many of his men from capture, he was awarded the Military Cross.
He died at Glamoc Airfield near Glamoč in November 1943 while on a Dornier Do 17 piloted by Croatian Air Force defectors.