Rupert George Hickmott was a first class cricketer and soldier.[1] He was born in 1894 in Christchurch, New Zealand and played 17 matches for Canterbury as a right-handed batsman between 1911/12 and 1914/15. He scored 778 runs, recording a century and 4 fifties and took 11 wickets at 27.27 with a best of 4 for 5. He died fighting on the Somme on September 16 1916 at the age of 22.