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{{Short description|English cricketer and British Army officer (1904–1942)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Howard Cyril Frederick Vella Dunbar
| birth_date = 20 October 1904
| birth_place = [[Pune|Poona]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1942|7|23|1904|10|20}}
| death_place = [[Ruweisat Ridge]], [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1928/29–1929/30
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 64
| bat avg1 = 10.66
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 28
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 2 April
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/28208.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Howard Cyril Frederick Vella Dunbar''' (20 October 1904 – 23 July 1942) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of Colonel Benjamin Howard Vella Dunbar {{postnominal|DSO}} and his wife Helen, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Pune|Poona]]. He moved to England at a young age with his parents, where he resided at [[Clapham Common]]. He was educated at [[Ampleforth College]], where he played for the cricket XI.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |volume=2nd |pages=219–20 |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> Deciding on a career in the [[British Army]], Dundar attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He graduated into the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Royal Tank Corps]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in August 1924,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32969|date=29 August 1924|page=6499}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in August 1926.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33198|date=3 September 1926|page=5763}}</ref> He was posted to India in the final years of the 1920s, where he played [[first-class cricket]]. He made two appearances for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] in 1929 and 1930 in the [[Lahore Tournament]], in addition to playing for Punjab Governor's XI against the Muslims at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]] in 1930.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13357/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Howard Dunbar|publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-04-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 64 runs in his three first-class matches, with a highest score of 28.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13357/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Howard Dunbar|publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-04-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Upon his return to England, he was appointed an assistant instructor at the Tank Driving and Maintenance School at [[Bovington Camp]] in June 1934.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34059|date=12 June 1934|page=3758}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in March 1936,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34268|date=27 March 1936|page=1976}}</ref> and the following year he relinquished his post at Bovington in May, returning to the establishment.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34398|date=14 May 1937|page=3185}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34403|date=1 June 1937|page=3513}}</ref> Dunbar served with the now renamed Royal Tank Regiment in the [[Second World War]], seeing promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in August 1941.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35256|date=22 August 1941|page=4936|supp=y}}</ref> He saw action in the [[North African campaign]] with the [[40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment]]. In the midst of the [[First Battle of El Alamein]] the British position was precarious, with [[Erwin Rommel|Rommel's]] ''[[Afrika Korps]]'' stopped just short of [[Alexandria]]. Arriving in North Africa in July 1942, the 40th were immediately pushed into re-enforcing the British line. With the Axis forces holding the strategically important [[Ruweisat Ridge]], this became a key objective for pushing back the Axis advance. On 23 July 1942, the 40th attacked the ridge, encountering heavy casualties due to Axis mines. Pushing on with the advance, C squadron were soon surrounded by German panzers of the [[15th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)|15th]] and [[21st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)|21st Panzer Division's]], resulting in the loss of 93 of the 104 [[Valentine tank]]s which were involved in the assault. Among those killed in action was Dunbar.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was buried at the [[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1904 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]
[[Category:People from Pune]]
[[Category:People educated at Ampleforth College]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Royal Tank Regiment officers]]
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[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Punjab Governor's XI cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel killed in World War II]]

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