Lives in Cricket No 23 - Brief Candles

120 Acknowledgements Many people have helped in producing this book, but it is right that I begin with my thanks to a few key contributors. First must be David Jeater, for his ever-constructive guidance from the early stages onwards. Equally, I must give profound thanks to Stuart Moffat and Bob Richards for so willingly giving up their time to me, and to Charlie Kuzniar for transcribing my interviews with them. For their general help, my thanks go in particular to Philip Bailey, for various contributions deriving from the CricketArchive database; to Mike Spurrier, for his assistance on the military careers of some of the Candles; and to Chris Overson, Robby Wilton and Peter Gilbert for their interest and general support (mostly!) throughout the project. For help on specific individuals I must thank in particular the following: John Boomer, Rita Boswell (Archivist, Harrow School), Robert Brooke, Gerry Byrne, Tony Debenham, Anthony Dougall (Brighton Brunswick CC), Michael Frost (Inner Temple library), Adam C.Green (Trinity College, Cambridge), Eric Greenwood, Andrew Hignell, Neil Jenkinson, Dennis Lambert, Julian Lawton-Smith, Neil Leitch, Malcolm Lorimer, Gerald Mortimer, Dr A.R.Morton (RMA, Sandhurst), Stephen Musk, Roy New, Anne Parkinson (Dick Wooster’s daughter), David Pracy, Pauline Raymond (Sedlescombe), Margaret Richards, Michael J.Sampson (Blundell’s School), Elizabeth Stazicker (King’s School, Ely), Michael Talbot-Butler, Joe Webber, Judith Wilde (Brunner Mond, Northwich), Guy Williams (Wellington College) and Peter Wynne-Thomas. My thanks for their help go too to countless librarians and assistants at the British Library at Colindale, the RAF Museum at Hendon, the National Archives at Kew, the MCC library at Lord’s, and at numerous local libraries and record offices across England, and beyond. My special thanks go too to Gerald Hudd and Chris Overson for their assiduous proof-reading, and to those who have supplied many of the illustrations: Eric Greenwood, Andrew Hignell, Richard Holdridge, Roger Mann, Jonathan and David Noble, David Potter, Bob Richards, Mike Spurrier, Elizabeth Stazicker, Geoff Treasure (Fred Hyland’s ‘grandson-in- law’), Alan Virgo (Woodvale Cemeteries, Brighton), and the Hampshire and Northamptonshire Record Offices. Other illustrations derive chiefly from my own dubious camera work. Many other people have earned my gratitude for smaller, though no less valuable, contributions towards the finished article. I apologise to any who look for their names here and don’t find them. You have my thanks already, and I am happy to reiterate them more generally here.