Hugh Montgomery (Royal Marines officer)
- Hugh Montgomery (Royal Marines officer)
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Ferguson Montgomery CMG, DSO (6th May 1880, Umbala, Bengal, India – 10th December 1920, Bray, County Dublin, Ireland) was a British first class cricketer and Royal Marine Light Infantry officer.
Montgomery was born in India and was a cousin of Field Marshal Montgomery. He played first class cricket for Somerset (1901–1909) and then the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
He served in the Royal Marine Light Infantry during the First World War at the Admiralty. In 1920 he was seconded to the British Army serving in Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War. He was shot by IRA gunmen in the events of Bloody Sunday dying of his wounds days later. [ [http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=75200175 Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry] ] He was laid to rest in Brompton Cemetery.
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