Lives in Cricet No 33 - Jack Robertson and Syd Brown

46 to normality, the Army declaring at 211 for eight (Robertson b Wyatt 42), and the RAF (including Hammond, Edrich, Ames) holding out for a draw at 129 for nine. Fifty years later, to the day, eight spectators who had been at the match, all schoolboys at the time, and three participants (Jack himself, Godfrey Evans and Charles Palmer) reconvened at Lord’s for a very enjoyable celebratory meeting. This incident really illustrates the remarkable circumstances under which many wartime matches must have been played. There are probably many other examples. Somerset’s Frank Lee, brother of Middlesex’s Harry, for example remembers playing cricket at Eastbourne with flying bombs passing overhead. 62 And just over a month after the Lord’s bomb the first V2 launched against Britain landed in Chiswick, less than two miles away from Jack’s house. 63 62 Lee, Frank, Cricket, Lovely Cricket , Stanley Paul, 1960. 63 The V2 was a terrifying, virtually unstoppable, ballistic missile. Because of its great speed it fell silently, giving civilians below no warning at all. Doodlebug Summer