Frank Tuff

Tuff was born at Rochester, Kent in November 1889, the son of Charles Tuff and his wife, Mary Ann Tuff.[1] He was educated at the Abbey School in Beckenham, before going up to Malvern College, where he played for the college cricket team for three years.[1] From Malvern he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied law.[1] While studying at Oxford he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Gentlemen of England at Oxford in 1910.[2] He made eight further first-class appearances for Oxford University across the 1910 and 1911 seasons,[2] scoring 128 runs with a high score of 34 not out,[3] while with his right-arm medium-fast bowling he took 18 wickets at an average of 30.55, with best figures of 5 for 28.[4] Tuff also represented the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team in a first-class match against a combined Army and Navy cricket team at Aldershot in 1910,[2] in which he also took a five wicket haul with figures of 7 for 47 in the Army and Navy first-innings.[5] He gained a blue in 1910.[1] In addition to playing cricket for the university, he also played football for Oxford University A.F.C. and Corinthians.[1] He married Muriel Mary Smith in 1912.[1] He made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University in 1914.[2]

Tuff served in the British Army during World War I, enlisting with the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles as a Second Lieutenant in June 1915.[6] He saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and was seriously wounded in a bomb accident at Cape Helles. He was evacuated to Malta, where he died from his wounds on 5 November 1915.[1] He was buried at the Pietà Military Cemetery.[1]

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