William McPetrie

William McPetrie

Personal information
Full name	William Martin McPetrie
Born	(1880-02-15)15 February 1880 Port Melbourne, Australia
Died	30 June 1951(1951-06-30) (aged 71) Hawthorn, Victoria
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1905	Victoria
Source: Cricinfo, 15 November 2015

William Martin McPetrie (15 February 1880 – 30 June 1951) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria in 1905.[1]

Family

The son of the Master mariner, Captain Alexander McPetrie (1840-1892),[2][3] — who was in command of the iron-hulled clipper ship, Ben Voirlich, when it set the record of 64 days between Plymouth and Port Phillip in January 1875[4] — and Elizabeth Simpson Petrie (1850-1915), née Mathieson,[5][6][7] Henry James Watson McPetrie was born in Port Melbourne on 15 February 1880.[8]

One of his brothers, Henry James Watson McPetrie (1877–1937), played Australian rules football for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF, in May 1916, served overseas, and returned to Australia in May 1918.[9][10][11]

Death

He died at the Allendale Private Hospital, in Hawthorn, Victoria, on 30 June 1951.[12][13]

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers

Notes

1. "William McPetrie". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
2. Deaths: McPetrie, The Australasian, (Saturday, 30 July 1892), p. 238.
3. Items of News, The (Port Melbourne) Standard, (Saturday, 30 July 1892), p. 2.
4. Lubbock (1921), pp. 235-236.
5. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.4280/1869.
6. Death: McPetrie, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Wednesday, 30 June 1915), p.10.
7. Death of Mrs. McPetrie, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, (Friday, 16 July 1915), p. 6.
8. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration no.2329/1880.
9. Embarkation Roll.
10. Nominal Roll.
11. Service Record.
12. Deaths: McPetrie, The Argus, (Wednesday, 4 July 1951), p. 12.
13. Obituary: W.M. McPetrie, The Longreach Leader, (Friday, 27 July 1951), p. 14.

References

• Lubbock, B. (1921), The Colonial Clippers (Second Edition), Glasgow: James Brown & Son.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Private William Martin McPetrie (2211), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Corporal William Martin McPetrie (2211), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Service Record: Corporal William Martin McPetrie (2211), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• William McPetrie at ESPNcricinfo