Peter Whitehouse

Peter Michael William Whitehouse (27 April 1917 – 19 November 1943) was an English cricketer and British army officer who played for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club. Whitehouse died on active service in Italy during World War II. Whitehouse was born at Birchington in Kent in 1917, the son of Henry and Majorie Whitehouse who later lived at Middle Wallop in Hampshire. He was educated at Marlborough College where he played in the cricket XI, before going up to New College, Oxford in 1936. As a schoolboy he was thought of as a bowling all-rounder who bowled "with beautiful action and length" and developed into a fine all-round player. He had played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in 1935 and won a cricket Blue in 1938, playing 16 first-class matches for the University. He appeared in eight matches for Kent in 1937 and 1938. During World War II Whitehouse served in the 6th Battalion of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles of the Indian Army. The unit formed part of the 19th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 8th Indian Infantry Division. The division fought in Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Africa before it landed at Taranto in September 1943 and fought its way up the Italian peninsula, during which Whitehouse was killed at Archi in November 1943 aged 26. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Torino di Sangro in Chieti.