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Born this day, 1906 in Cardiff,

Maurice Turnbull, the only person to have played cricket for England and rugby for Wales. A talented all-round sportsman, he also represented Wales at hockey and was squash champion of South Wales.

During the Second World War, he was a Major in the First Battalion of the Welsh Guards: he was killed instantly by a sniper's bullet during intense fighting for the French village of Montchamp after the Normandy landings in 1944.

RIP <rose>