Kenneth Woodroffe

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Kenneth Herbert Clayton Woodroffe (9 December 1892 - 13 May 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer who was killed in action during World War I

Woodroffe was born in Lewes, West Sussex and was educated at Marlborough College. He was a Right-hand batsman and bowled Right-arm fast. He played for Hampshire (1912-1913), Cambridge University (1913-1914), and Sussex (1914).

On May 9, 1915, as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade, attached to 2nd Welsh Regiment, he was killed in action near Neuve-Chappelle, France, aged 22.^[1]. He was also Mentioned in Despatches. His 19-year-old brother, 2nd Lieutenant Sidney Clayton Woodroffe (8th Rifle Brigade), was killed two months after him in 1915 while showing such bravery that he was awarded the Victoria Cross.