Bill Watkins

January 18, 1923 (age 82)

Swansea, United Kingdom

Watkins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm leg break googly. Watkins served in the Royal Air Force duringthe Second World War, enlisiting when he was 18 in 1941 and serving with 514 Squadron at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Following the end of the war, Watkins left the Royal Air Force and returned to his native Swansea, where he worked as a metallurgist for British Aluminium and Aluminum Company of America. Watkins played a single first-class match for Glamorgan in 1950 against Hampshire at Saint Helen"son A keen sportsman, he also had trials with the rugby league club Wigan. Watkins died at Killay, Glamorgan on 15 March 2005.

Bill Watkins

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He was born at Swansea, Glamorgan.

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Watkins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm leg break googly. Watkins served in the Royal Air Force duringthe Second World War, enlisiting when he was 18 in 1941 and serving with 514 Squadron at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Following the end of the war, Watkins left the Royal Air Force and returned to his native Swansea, where he worked as a metallurgist for British Aluminium and Aluminum Company of America. Watkins played a single first-class match for Glamorgan in 1950 against Hampshire at Saint Helen"son

A keen sportsman, he also had trials with the rugby league club Wigan.

Watkins died at Killay, Glamorgan on 15 March 2005.

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During the course of the war he took part in 31 missions over Germany in his Lancaster bomber, earning him by wars end the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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