Lives in Cricket No 5 - Rockley Wilson

to stake a regular place in the Yorkshire side in the school vacations. 71 After the enforced interlude of the war years, Rockley Wilson was apparently so little remembered in Yorkshire that the Yorkshire County Cricket Yearbook of 1919, in its feature List of Players Since 1833 , had his name as E.Rodley Wilson and his date of death as 13 August 1906, fifty one years before his time! The error was corrected, without comment, in the 1920 edition. Great War Interlude 68 Palestine General Headquarters Officers’ Mess, 1918. Standing (l to r): Lt Smith, Capt J.de V.Loder, Lt B.Sanders, Lt Clapham, Lt Scott-Archer. Seated: Capt E.W.Duffield, Maj G.le R.Burnham, Maj V.Vivian, Rev J.de la Bere. On the ground: Cap O.C.Harris, Capt E.R.Wilson, Capt R.H.Cawston. 71 In one of his letters to Clem, Rockley noted the sad news of the death of Alonzo Drake and added, presciently, “[Yorkshire] will need a fresh set of bowlers to help Wilfred as I don’t think George Hirst will bowl much more.”