| Country: | South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Fullname: | William Eric Carlsson | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | January 1892 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Hoetjies Bay, Cape Colony, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Death Date: | 14 July 1916 (aged 24) | ||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Longueval, Somme, France | ||||||||||||||
| Batting: | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Club1: | Western Province | ||||||||||||||
| Year1: | 1910/11 | ||||||||||||||
| Columns: | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Column1: | First-class | ||||||||||||||
| Matches1: | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs1: | 44 | ||||||||||||||
| Bat Avg1: | 6.28 | ||||||||||||||
| 100S/50S1: | –/– | ||||||||||||||
| Top Score1: | 24 | ||||||||||||||
| Hidedeliveries: | true | ||||||||||||||
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 4/– | ||||||||||||||
| Date: | 1 April | ||||||||||||||
| Year: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13124/13124.html CricketArchive | ||||||||||||||
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William Eric Carlsson (January 1892 – 14 July 1916) was a South African first-class cricket, rugby union player and a soldier in the South African Army.
Carlsson was born at Hoetjies Bay in January 1892.[1] He was educated at both the Diocesan College and St George's Grammar School.[2] [3] Carlsson played first-class cricket for Western Province in the 1910–11 Currie Cup, making four appearances against Eastern Province, Border, Natal, and Griqualand West.[4] He scored 44 runs in his four matches, with a highest score of 24.[5]
Carlsson played club rugby for Villagers RFC and provincial rugby for, making his debut in 1914. He was a member of the Western Province team that won the Currie Cup in 1914, by winning all nine of their matches in the competition.[6] [7]
Carlsson served in the South African Army during the First World War as a private in the 1st Infantry Brigade, which travelled to Europe as part of the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force.[1] He saw action on the Western Front, where he fought in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. He was killed in action at Delville Wood on 14 July.[8] He is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial.[9]