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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Alfred Stuart Dallas
| birth_date = 25 August 1895
| birth_place = [[Kasauli]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1921|1|30|1895|8|25|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Secunderabad]], [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]],<br>British India
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1920/21
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 97
| bat avg1 = 48.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 52
| deliveries1 = 72
| wickets1 = 3
| bowl avg1 = 32.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 3/96
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 21 November
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28141.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Alfred Stuart Dallas''' {{postnominal|MC}} <small>and Bar</small> (25 August 1895 – 30 January 1921) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of Charles Mowbray Dallas and his wife Catherine, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Kasauli]] in August 1895.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=Mr Felton's Bequests|first=John|last=Poynter|publisher=[[Melbourne University Publishing|Miegunyah Press]]|year=2008|page=231|isbn=9780522855524|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmKygZ2Uf5sC|language=en}}</ref> He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]], where he played for the [[cricket]] eleven.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite book|title=Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918|last1=Renshaw|first1=Andrew|page=473|date=2014|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|isbn=9781408832356|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyoeAwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> From Charterhouse he attended the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy]] at [[Woolwich]], from where he graduated as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] into the [[Royal Horse Artillery|Royal Horse]] and [[Royal Field Artillery]] in November 1914, with the [[First World War]] having begun three and a half months previously.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28976|date=13 November 1914|page=9384}}</ref> He was made a temporary [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in July 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29224|date=9 July 1915|page=6702}}</ref> with him gaining the rank in full in December of the same year.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29406|date=17 December 1915|page=12650|supp=y}}</ref> Dallas was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in October 1916 for conspicuous gallantry while undertaking duties as a [[Artillery observer#British Forward Observation Officer|Forward Observation Officer]], for which he was wounded twice.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29793|date=20 October 1916|page=10179|supp=y}}</ref> In January 1917, he was made an acting [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] and in August 1917 he added a bar to his Military Cross when he was decorated for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in leading horses to safety during intense shelling, before returning to an observation post at the front and doing valuable work for his battery.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30117|date=5 June 1917|page=5597|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30251|date=24 August 1917|page=8804|supp=y}}</ref> He relinquished the acting rank of captain following the end of the war.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31887|date=4 May 1920|page=5191|supp=y}}</ref>

Dallas was stationed in British India after the war, where he played a single [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in December 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13262/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Alfred Dallas|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-21|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In the Indians only innings of the match, Dallas took figures of 3 for 96 from 12 [[over (cricket)|overs]] while opening the bowling with [[Kenneth Goldie]]. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 52 by [[M. Venkataramanjulu]], while [[follow-on|following-on]] in their second innings he was dismissed for 45 runs by [[M. Baliah Naidu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10001.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1920/21|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-21|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He drowned at [[Secunderabad]] while [[Waterfowl hunting|duckshooting]] on 30 August 1921 and is buried there at the [[Tirumalagiri|Trimulgherry Cantoment]] Cemetery.<ref name="BOOK"/><ref name="OBIT"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1895 births]]
[[Category:1921 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kasauli]]
[[Category:People educated at Charterhouse School]]
[[Category:Royal Horse Artillery officers]]
[[Category:Royal Field Artillery officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British people in British India]]
[[Category:Hunting accident deaths]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths in India]]

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