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{{Short description|Welsh cricketer and British Army officer (1886–1956)}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox cricketer
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| image =
| country = Wales
| full_name = Howel Gwyn Moore-Gwyn
| birth_date = 17 July 1886
| birth_place = [[Dyffryn Clydach]], [[Glamorgan]],<br>Wales
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1956|7|31|1886|7|17}}
| death_place = [[Eastbourne]], Sussex, England
| nickname =
| family =
| heightft =
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| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]]
| year1 = 1903–1912
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 91
| bat avg1 = 30.33
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 58
| deliveries1 = 144
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 8 April
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17208.html ESPNcricinfo
}}
'''Howel Gwyn Moore-Gwyn''' {{postnominal|DSO|MC}} (7 July 1886 – 31 July 1956) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] first-class cricketer and [[British Army]] officer. Moore-Gwyn served in the [[Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)|Rifle Brigade]] from 1906–1942, in a military career which spanned both world wars and saw him awarded both the [[Military Cross]] and the [[Distinguished Service Order]]. He also played first-class cricket for the [[British Army cricket team]] and for the [[Punjab Governor's XI cricket team|Punjab Governor's XI]] in [[British India]].

==Early life and military career==
Moore-Gwyn was born at [[Neath]] and was educated at [[Winchester College]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Rifle Brigade Chronicle |date=1987 |publisher=Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) |page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTBF0B9lSVAC |language=en}}</ref> He debuted in [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] in the 1903 [[Minor Counties Championship]] against [[Berkshire County Cricket Club|Berkshire]].<ref name="MCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14145/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Howell Moore-Gwyn |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=12 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> From Winchester he attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]],<ref name="BOOK"/> graduating into the [[Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)|Rifle Brigade]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in August 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27944|date=28 August 1906|page=5872}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in April 1910.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28398|date=22 July 1910|page=5273}}</ref> He played his final minor counties match for Glamorgan in 1912, having made a total of twelve appearances in the Minor Counties Championship since 1903.<ref name="MCM"/> He was made an [[adjutant]] in December 1913,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28782|date=16 December 1913|page=9255}}</ref> with promotion to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in June 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28870|date=14 August 1914|page=6404}}</ref>

He served during the [[First World War]], during which he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in June 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29202|date=22 June 1915|page=6126|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted to the acting rank of [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in September 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29838|date=24 November 1916|page=11568|supp=y}}</ref> with him relinquishing the rank in November 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29904|date=16 January 1917|page=605}}</ref> He was again made an acting major in March 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30085|date=22 May 1917|page=5011|supp=y}}</ref> and was [[mentioned in dispatches]] in July 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30196|date=20 July 1917|page=7454|supp=y}}</ref> the same month in which he relinquished his acting rank of major.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30330|date=9 October 1917|page=10748|supp=y}}</ref>

==Later military career and life==
Moore-Gwyn was made a companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in May 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31370|date=30 May 1919|page=6819}}</ref> He later made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[British Army cricket team]] against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] at [[Fenner's]] in 1923.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14145/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Howell Moore-Gwyn |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=12 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 58 runs in the Army's first-innings, before becoming one of [[Claude Ashton]]'s seven wickets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10759.html |title=Cambridge University v Army, 1923 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=12 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In July 1924, he was seconded for service with the [[Colonial Office]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32958|date=22 July 1924|page=5549}}</ref> with promotion to the rank of major coming in October of that same year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32984|date=21 October 1924|page=7591}}</ref> He relinquished his command at the Colonial Office in August 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33417|date=31 August 1928|page=5769}}</ref>

While serving in [[British India]], he made a second appearance in first-class cricket for a [[Punjab Governor's XI cricket team|Punjab Governor's XI]] against the [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]].<ref name="FCM"/> He was promoted to the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in July 1934.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34068|date=10 July 1934|page=4434}}</ref> Having completed his period of service in July 1938, he was placed on the [[half-pay]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34531|date=12 July 1938|page=4535}}</ref> However, with the threat of war with [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], he was restored to the full-pay list in January 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34607|date=14 March 1939|page=1766}}</ref> He served in the [[Second World War]], during which he was promoted to the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in May 1940, with seniority to July 1937.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34865|date=4 June 1940|page=3415|supp=y}}</ref>

He retired from active service in October 1942 and was placed on the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|reserve of officers]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35740|date=9 October 1942|page=4431|supp=y}}</ref> Having exceeded the age for recall, he was removed the list in July 1944.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=36596|date=4 July 1944|page=3170|supp=y}}</ref> He died at [[Eastbourne]] in July 1956, exactly two weeks after his seventieth birthday.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=17208}}

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[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
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[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
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