Harold Jameson

Harold Gordon Jameson (25 January 1918 — 26 August 1940) was an Irish first-class cricketer and Royal Marines officer.

Harold Jameson

Personal information
Full name	Harold Gordon Jameson
Born	25 January 1918 Dundrum, Ireland
Died	26 August 1940(1940-08-26) (aged 22) Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Nickname	Peter
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1938	Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 2 Runs scored 7 Batting average 2.33 100s/50s –/– Top score 4 Balls bowled 300 Wickets 2 Bowling average 102.00 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 2/68 Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 January 2022

The oldest son of the Reverend William Jameson and his wife Georgina Marjorie Gibbon, H G Jameson was born at Dundrum in January 1918. He was educated in England at Monkton Combe School, where his father was head of the junior school.[1] From there he matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2]

While studying at Cambridge, he made two first-class cricket appearances for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1938, against the touring Australians and against Essex, with both matches played at Fenner's.[3] He took two wickets against Essex, dismissing Alan Lavers and Tom Wade.[4]

The Second World War began in the same year that Jameson graduated from Cambridge and he was commissioned into the Royal Marines as a temporary second lieutenant in June 1940.[5] He was billeted at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth and was one of eight marines killed during a German air raid on the fort on 26 August 1940, when a bomb struck a perimeter room in which they were gathered. Jameson was buried at the Royal Naval Cemetery, Haslar.[1] His headstone reads: I will give him the morning star (Revelations 2.28).