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	}}'''Percy d'Aguilar Banks''' (9 May 1885 – 26 April 1915) played [[first-class cricket\|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club\|Somerset]] in 1903 and 1908.<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3421/3421.html\| title = Percy Banks \|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com \|url-access=subscription \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> He was born at [[Bath, Somerset\|Bath]], [[Somerset]] and died in the [[First World War]] fighting at the [[Ypres salient]], [[Belgium]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-1-of-5-165998 \|title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 1 of 5 \|work=Cricket Country \|date=3 August 2014 \|accessdate=28 November ~~2022~~}}</ref>		}}'''Percy d'Aguilar Banks''' (9 May 1885 – 26 April 1915) played [[first-class cricket\|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club\|Somerset]] in 1903 and 1908.<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3421/3421.html\| title = Percy Banks \|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com \|url-access=subscription \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> He was born at [[Bath, Somerset\|Bath]], [[Somerset]] and died in the [[First World War]] fighting at the [[Ypres salient]], [[Belgium]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-1-of-5-165998 \|title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 1 of 5 \|work=Cricket Country \|date=3 August 2014 \|accessdate=28 November 2018}}</ref>

	Banks was educated at [[Cheltenham College]] and as a schoolboy cricketer he made 103 in the annual Cheltenham match against [[Haileybury College]] at [[Lord's]] in 1902.<ref name="obit">{{cite web \| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229821.html\| title = Wisden — Obituaries in 1915 \| date = 16 December 2005 \|publisher = www.espncricinfo.com \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> A right-handed batsman, he appeared in a single match for Somerset in 1903 and then returned for six more games in 1908, batting mostly in the middle- or lower order but on occasion opening the batting. He made some runs in most games, but his highest score in first-class cricket was only 30, made against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club\|Yorkshire]] in his last first-class game.<ref>{{cite web \| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7614.html \| title = Scorecard: Yorkshire v Somerset \| date = 1908-06-29 \|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com \|url-access=subscription \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref>		Banks was educated at [[Cheltenham College]] and as a schoolboy cricketer he made 103 in the annual Cheltenham match against [[Haileybury College]] at [[Lord's]] in 1902.<ref name="obit">{{cite web \| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229821.html\| title = Wisden — Obituaries in 1915 \| date = 16 December 2005 \|publisher = www.espncricinfo.com \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> A right-handed batsman, he appeared in a single match for Somerset in 1903 and then returned for six more games in 1908, batting mostly in the middle- or lower order but on occasion opening the batting. He made some runs in most games, but his highest score in first-class cricket was only 30, made against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club\|Yorkshire]] in his last first-class game.<ref>{{cite web \| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7614.html \| title = Scorecard: Yorkshire v Somerset \| date = 1908-06-29 \|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com \|url-access=subscription \| accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref>

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{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1885–1915)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Percy Banks
| image = PD Banks, Somerset cricketer.jpg
| country = England
| fullname = Percy d'Aguilar Banks
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|5|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[Somerset]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|4|26|1885|5|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ypres salient]], [[West Flanders]], Belgium
| batting = Right-handed

| club1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year1 = 1903–1908

| type1 = First-class
| debutdate1 = 31 August
| debutyear1 = 1903
| debutfor1 = Somerset
| debutagainst1 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| lastdate1 = 29 June
| lastyear1 = 1908
| lastfor1 = Somerset
| lastagainst1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]

| columns = 1
| hidedeliveries = true
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 7
| runs1 = 161
| bat avg1 = 12.38
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 30
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 8 December
| year = 2012
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3421/3421.html CricketArchive
}}'''Percy d'Aguilar Banks''' (9 May 1885 – 26 April 1915) played [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] in 1903 and 1908.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3421/3421.html| title = Percy Banks |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> He was born at [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[Somerset]] and died in the [[First World War]] fighting at the [[Ypres salient]], [[Belgium]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-1-of-5-165998 |title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 1 of 5 |work=Cricket Country |date=3 August 2014 |accessdate=28 November 2022}}</ref>

Banks was educated at [[Cheltenham College]] and as a schoolboy cricketer he made 103 in the annual Cheltenham match against [[Haileybury College]] at [[Lord's]] in 1902.<ref name="obit">{{cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229821.html| title = Wisden — Obituaries in 1915 | date = 16 December 2005 |publisher = www.espncricinfo.com | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> A right-handed batsman, he appeared in a single match for Somerset in 1903 and then returned for six more games in 1908, batting mostly in the middle- or lower order but on occasion opening the batting. He made some runs in most games, but his highest score in first-class cricket was only 30, made against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] in his last first-class game.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7614.html | title = Scorecard: Yorkshire v Somerset | date = 1908-06-29 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref>

Graduating from the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], in 1903, Banks became an officer in the [[Wiltshire Regiment|Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27604 |date=1903-10-09 |page=6153 }}</ref> In 1906, he was promoted from second lieutenant to full lieutenant and was attached to the [[Queen's Own Corps of Guides]], one of the British India regiments.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27913 |date=1906-05-15 |page=3363 }}</ref> He was further promoted to be captain in 1912.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28664 |date=1912-11-19 |page=8465 }}</ref> At the time of his death in the First World War, he was attached to the [[57th Wilde's Rifles]], an Indian Army regiment that was transferred back to Europe to join the fighting in and around Ypres.<ref name="obit"/> During the war, he had been [[mentioned in dispatches]].<ref name="CWGC">{{cite web | url = http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1604501 | title = Banks, Percy D'Aguilar | publisher = Commonwealth War Graves Commission | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> His death is commemorated on the [[Menin Gate]] in Ypres.<ref name="CWGC"/>

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[[Category:Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset]]
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[[Category:Wiltshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Corps of Guides (India) officers]]
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