Lives in Cricket No 28 - Keith Carmody

140 Index Carmody, James (alias Carny and Carnedy) (Keith’s great-grandfather) 10 Carmody, James (Keith’s grandfather), 11 Carmody, Jill (Keith’s older daughter) see Stewart, Jill Carmody, John Henry James (Harry) 11, 13, 23, 26, 79, 80, 114 Carmody, (Irene) Joyce 11, 12, 25, 28, 29 Carmody, Keith 12, 16, 21, 29, 37, 38, 41, 66, 81, 82, 87, 96, 97, 106, 115 ancestry 10-11 childhood in Mosman 12-13 education 18 employment 18 junior cricketer 16-17 see also Goodwill Tour; Public Schools Amateur Athletic Association [PSAAA]; Poidevin-Gray Shield other sporting interests baseball, golf, table tennis, tennis, softball, 25, 38 enlistment in R.A.A.F. 24, 27 flight training at Narrandera, N.S.W. 27 in Canada 28-30 travel in North America 25, 28-30 in Britain 32 operational flying with 461 Squadron 31, 38 with 455 Squadron 38-42 wartime cricket as captain of RAAF team 33-42 passim as captain of Empire and Dominions teams see British Empire XI, Dominions XI, ‘umbrella’field social life in wartime England 45-47 aircraft shot down, capture by Germans, 42, 48-50 wounds 49, 49 note transfer across Germany to Sagan 49-51 as PoW in Stalag Luft III, Belaria ‘stooging’ 54 studying physics, algebra, geometry 54 books read, plays seen 60 movies seen 62 cricket played see Kriege ‘Tests’; Pearson, Peter softball, baseball, table tennis 54, 58-59 cooking 60-61, 62 fluctuating moods 59, 61-65 passim correspondents see Chicherio, Josephine; Edwards, Elsie; Davis, Bette; Frank, Ruth Mattison; Johnson, Keith march to Luckenwalde 63-64 detention by Soviet Army 68-69 physical trauma, psychological strain 65-69 passim see also Berlin, bombing of designs house for Pearson, clubhouse for Rawson Oval 64, 79 practises cricket 54, 55, 58, 69 playing form in England in 1945 72- 77, 79, 80, see also Victory ‘Tests’; Learie Constantine’s XI speaks in Trafalgar Square, September 1945 79 batting feats in India, 1945 89-90 failure in Australia in 1945 90 returns to Mosman CC, January 1946 91 plays for N.S.W. 1946/47 93 recruited by Western Australia 1947 94, see also Boans department store Sheffield Shield victory 1947/48 95-96 highest first-class score 95, 96, 138 coaching priorities 89-103, 108-109, see also Rutherford, John; captaincy assessed 112-116 marriage, January 1949 104-106, 106, see also Carmody, Ruth alienation from WACA 109-12, 116-18 life in Kalamunda building house 92, 119-20 birth of children earth-moving business 119 social life 120-21 musical skills 120-21 alcohol and marriage breakdown 120-25 return to Sydney 123 coaching in N.S.W. 123 illness, death, funeral 123-26 disposal of ashes 129 Carmody, Kelly (Keith’s younger daughter) 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 129 Carmody, Noel 11, 13, 20, 25, 64 Carmody, Ruth 29, 30, 59, 104-106, 106 , 110-11, 120-22, 125-26, 129, 130-31, see also Frank, Ruth Mattison; Frank, Murray Carr, Donald 74, 75 Carroll, Madeline 30 Casey, R.G. 85 Ceylon 84, 87, 88 Charlesworth, Dorothy 120