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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Francis Hunt Gould
| birth_date = 16 October 1881
| birth_place = [[Ross-on-Wye]], [[Herefordshire]],<br>England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1915|6|16|1881|10|16}}
| death_place = [[Armentières]], [[Nord (French department)|Nord]], France
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1913/14
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 31
| bat avg1 = 31.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 27[[not out|*]]
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 9 October
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/28961.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Francis Hunt Gould''' (16 October 1881 – 6 June 1915) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of a British Army captain, he was born at [[Ross-on-Wye]] in October 1881. He was educated at [[Repton School]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|page=107}}</ref> After completing his education, he enlisted in the [[British Army]] and was commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in the [[3rd (Hampshire Militia) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment]], in March 1900;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27177|date=27 March 1900|page=2046}}</ref> both his parents were from [[Andover, Hampshire|Andover]] in [[Hampshire]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in June 1902, and transferred to a posting with the regular army in the [[Middlesex Regiment]] in January 1903, at which point he returned to the rank of second lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27454|date=15 July 1902|page=4514}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27519|date=27 January 1903|page=533}}</ref> He was re-promoted to lieutenant in December 1905.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27865|date=19 December 1905|page=9087}}</ref> Gould later served with the regiment in [[British India]], where he played club cricket for the [[Ballygunge]] district of [[Kolkata|Calcutta]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] while in India for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1913/14 [[Bombay Quadrangular#Presidency Match|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13543/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Francis Gould |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-10-09 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs by [[Palwankar Baloo]] in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was [[not out|unbeaten]] on 27.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9162.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, 1913/14 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-10-09 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Seven months after his promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in January 1914 the [[First World War]] began.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28799|date=6 February 1914|page=984}}</ref> He returned home with the Middlesex Regiment, which was immediately sent to [[Western Front (World War I)|the front in France]]. Gould was killed on 6 June 1915 in an accident at [[Armentières]]. He is buried at the [[Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=28961}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Francis}}
[[Category:1881 births]]
[[Category:1915 deaths]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Herefordshire]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Ross-on-Wye]]
[[Category:People educated at Repton School]]
[[Category:Hampshire and Isle of Wight Militia officers]]
[[Category:Royal Hampshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Middlesex Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British military personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths in France]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Herefordshire]]
[[Category:19th-century British Army personnel]]
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in France]]

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