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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Philip Pocock
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Philip Frederick Pocock
| birth_date = 5 December 1871
| birth_place = [[Mussoorie]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|11|9|1871|12|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Stansted Mountfitchet]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1896/97–1898/99
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 12
| bat avg1 = 4.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 9
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 7 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/philip-pocock-32469 Cricinfo
}}

'''Philip Frederick Pocock''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|DSO}} (5 December 1871 – 9 November 1941) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

Pocock was born in December 1871 in [[British India]] at [[Mussoorie]]. He attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College at Sandhurst]], graduating from there into the [[King's Regiment (Liverpool)]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in March 1891.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26146|date=24 March 1891|page=1666}}</ref> Pocock transferred to the [[British Indian Army]] in July 1892, being concurrently promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26506|date=24 April 1894|page=2321}}</ref> While in serving in India, Pocock made three appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] in the [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Presidency Match]] between 1896 and 1898.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14340/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Philip Pocock|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=7 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In these, he scored 12 runs with a highest score of 9.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14340/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Philip Pocock|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=7 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In the Indian Army, promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] followed in July 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27362|date=4 October 1901|page=6487}}</ref> He was made a [[brigade major]] in May 1905,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27971|date=27 November 1906|page=8307}}</ref> with promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] following in March 1909, at which point Pocock was serving with the [[119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)|119th Infantry]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28259|date=11 June 1909|page=4483}}</ref>

He served in the [[First World War]] with the [[120th Rajputana Infantry]] in the [[Mesopotamian campaign]], during which he was [[mentioned in dispatches]] and made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in August 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29536|date=4 April 1916|page=3671|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30859|date=20 August 1918|page=9818|supp=y}}</ref> During the campaign, he was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in March 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30138|date=19 June 1917|page=6051}}</ref> Following the war, he served in the [[Waziristan campaign (1919–1920)|Waziristan campaign]], being mentioned in dispatches.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32353|date=10 June 1921|page=4702|supp=y}}</ref> By 1922, he held the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]]. Pocock was decorated by France with the ''[[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]]'' in February 1922, for services rendered during the [[First World War]].<ref>{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=13786|date=10 February 1922|page=265}}</ref> In the [[1924 Birthday Honours]], he was made a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32941|date=30 May 1924|page=4409|supp=y}}</ref> He was later appointed a brigade commander with the [[20th Indian Infantry Brigade]] in September 1926,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33224|date=26 November 1926|page=7681}}</ref> before being appointed an area commandant in November 1926.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33254|date=4 March 1927|page=1438}}</ref> Pocock retired in May 1927,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33272|date=6 May 1927|page=2964}}</ref> with him being granted the honorary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]] in August 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33413|date=17 July 1928|page=5514}}</ref> He retired to England after the cessation of his military career, where he died in November 1941 at [[Stansted Mountfitchet|Stansted Mountfitchet, Hertfordshire]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=32469}}

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[[Category:1871 births]]
[[Category:1941 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century British Army personnel]]
[[Category:People from Mussoorie]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:King's Regiment (Liverpool) officers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Waziristan Campaign]]
[[Category:British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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