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{{short description|Scottish cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = Scotland
| full_name = Ralph Hamilton Crake
| birth_date = 13 April 1882
| birth_place = [[Chennai|Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|1|26|1882|4|13|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Midlothian]], Scotland
| nickname =
| family = [[Eric Crake]] (brother)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year1 = 1901
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1920/21
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 47
| bat avg1 = 11.75
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 37
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 30 May
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10957.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Ralph Hamilton Crake''' {{postnominal|DSO|DL}} (13 April 1882 – 26 January 1952) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of the merchant and footballer [[William Crake]], he was born in [[British India]] at [[Chennai|Madras]]. He was educated in England at [[Harrow School]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911|last1=Dauglish|first1=M. G.|last2=Stephenson|first2=P. K.|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans, Green, and Co.]]|location=London|year=1911|edition=3|page=[https://archive.org/details/harrowschoolregi00harruoft/page/768 768]|url=https://archive.org/details/harrowschoolregi00harruoft|language=en}}</ref> where he played for the school cricket team.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228425.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1952 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=2021-05-30}}</ref> Having left Harrow in 1900, Crake played a single [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) against [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] at [[Lord's]] in 1901.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13234/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Ralph Crake |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-05-30 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 8 runs in the MCC first innings and a single run in their second innings, being dismissed on both occasions by [[John Gunn (cricketer)|John Gunn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5606.html |title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Nottinghamshire, 1901 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-05-30 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

After completing his education, he attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He graduated from that school in May 1901, and was commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in the [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27312|date=10 May 1901|page=3200}}</ref> Soon after being commissioned he went to South Africa, where he saw action with the 1st battalion of his regiment in the [[Second Boer War]].<ref name="BOOK"/> The war in South Africa ended in May 1902, and he returned home later that year, on the {{SS|Kildonan Castle||6}} in December 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home |date=5 December 1902 |page=8 |issue=36943}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in September 1905,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27843|date=10 October 1905|page=6778}}</ref> with promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] following in November 1908.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28201|date=1 December 1908|page=9183}}</ref> He was stationed in [[Khedivate of Egypt|Egypt]] in 1909, where he played minor cricket matches for the [[Egypt national cricket team|Egyptian cricket team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13234/Miscellaneous_Matches.html |title=Miscell aneous Matches played by Ralph Crake |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-05-30 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Crake served in the [[First World War]], seeing action during the [[Mesopotamian campaign]] from 1915 to 1918.<ref name="OBIT"/> He gained promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in May 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29589|date=19 May 1916|page=5041|supp=y}}</ref> while in August of the same year he was made an acting [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] while commanding a battalion.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29844|date=1 December 1916|page=11733}}</ref> He relinquished his acting rank in October 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29904|date=16 January 1917|page=605}}</ref> but was once again made an acting lieutenant colonel in August 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30262|date=31 August 1917|page=9091|supp=y}}</ref> Crake was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in February 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30514|date=5 February 1918|page=1800|supp=y}}</ref>

Following the war, he served in British India. While there, he made his second appearance in first-class cricket, after a gap of nearly twenty years, for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular]] in November 1920.<ref name="FCM"/> Batting twice during the match, he made scores of 37 in the Europeans first innings and 1 in their second innings, being dismissed on both occasions by [[M. B. Vatcha]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9986.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, 1920/21 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-05-30 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Crake was promoted to the full rank of lieutenant colonel in July 1930,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33625|date=15 July 1930|page=4429}}</ref> before being placed on the [[half-pay]] list in July 1934.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34066|date=3 July 1934|page=4229}}</ref> He retired from active service in January 1935.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34121|date=4 January 1935|page=136}}</ref> Crake was appointed a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[Berwickshire]] in April 1937.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34329|date=27 April 1937|page=2737}}</ref> During the [[Second World War]] he assisted the [[Army Cadet Force]] at [[Roxburgh]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36213|date=15 October 1943|page=4612|supp=y}}</ref> Crake died at [[Edinburgh]] in January 1952.<ref name="OBIT"/> His brother, [[Eric Crake|Eric]], was also a first-class cricketer.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=10957}}

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[[Category:1882 births]]
[[Category:1952 deaths]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Chennai]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Chennai]]
[[Category:People educated at Harrow School]]
[[Category:Scottish cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]
[[Category:King's Own Scottish Borderers officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Deputy lieutenants of Berwickshire]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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