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{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1888–1953)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Frank Graham Smallwood
| nickname =
| birth_date = 10 February 1867
| birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|12|30|1867|2|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Pune|Poona]], [[Bombay Presidency]],<br>British India
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1893/94
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 15
| bat avg1 = 7.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 10
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 8 December
| year = 2022
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/frank-smallwood-34431 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Frank Graham Smallwood''' {{postnominal|CVO}} (10 February 1867 — 30 December 1919) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of Albert Edward and Margaret Anne Smallwood, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in February 1867.<ref>{{cite book|title=Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War|year=1923|publisher=[[Rugby School]]|location=Rugby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNy0AAAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> He was educated at [[Rugby School]], where he played for the school cricket team.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsVdAwAAQBAJ|title=Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918|last=Renshaw|first=Andrew|date=8 May 2014|publisher=[[A & C Black]]|page=469|isbn=978-1408832363}}</ref> From Rugby he attended the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]. Smallwood graduated from there into the [[Royal Artillery]] (RA) as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in July 1886.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25615|date=10 August 1886|page=3855}}</ref> He went to British India with the RA, taking part in the [[Sikkim expedition]] of 1888.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register 1874–1904|first=A. T.|last=Mitchell|date=1904|volume=2|publisher=A. J. Lawrence|page=69|url=https://archive.org/details/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft |language=en}}</ref> In May 1891, he was seconded for service with the [[Indian Ordnance Factories Service|Indian Ordnance Service]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26168|date=2 June 1891|page=2926}}</ref> In India, Smallwood made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]] of August 1893.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14570/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Frank Smallwood|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 10 runs by [[Nasarvanji Bapasola]] in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by [[B. C. Machhliwala]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4043.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1893/94|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In the RA, Smallwood served in the [[Chitral Expedition]] of 1895, and was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in July 1897.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26869|date=2 July 1897|page=3635}}</ref> He was made a Member of the [[Royal Victorian Order]], 4th Class in May 1906 in recognition of his service during the [[George V|Prince]] and [[Mary of Teck|Princess of Wales]]' tour to India.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27913|date=15 May 1906|page=3324}}</ref> Promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]], he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in December 1911,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28559|date=8 December 1911|page=9364}}</ref> [[1911 Delhi Durbar Honours|in connection with]] the [[Delhi Durbar]] of 1911.<ref name="BOOK"/> Having been appointed an assistant director of ordnance stores in India in June 1914,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28853|date=28 July 1914|page=5870}}</ref> Smallwood subsequently served in the [[First World War]] and was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in October 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28987|date=27 November 1914|page=9992}}</ref> Following the war, he was promoted to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in October 1919, with seniority from October 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31622|date=28 October 1919|page=13222|supp=y}}</ref> Smallwood died suddenly from heart failure at King George's Hospital in [[Pune|Poona]] in December 1919.<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=34431}}

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[[Category:1867 births]]
[[Category:1919 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Kolkata]]
[[Category:People educated at Rugby School]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]
[[Category:Royal Artillery officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Sikkim expedition]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:19th-century British Army personnel]]

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