Harry Lee Lee finally made his mark in the Middlesex side in the days before the start of World War One (WW1) but within months he had been shot in the leg during the hostilities at Neuve Chapelle and lay for three days between the lines. He was reported dead, and a memorial service was held. It turned out he was in German hands, but so bad were his injuries that he was repatriated as a hopeless case. Despite a shortened and withered left leg, he became a permanent fixture in the county side and made one Test outing in 1931. He had also survived another near miss when, in 1917, the ship he had been booked on to travel to India was torpedoed just out of Plymouth http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/16249.html There are 2 medal cards for Henry William Lee - not sure which one is his ... or even if either of them are his !! http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...atid=10&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=* Henry William Lee (October 26, 1890, Marylebone, London – April 21, 1981, Westminster, London) was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1931. The eldest of three brothers who all played first class cricket, he joined the Lords ground staff in 1906 and was offered a contract by Middlesex in 1911. His blossoming career was interrupted by the Great War, he scored a century against Nottinghamshire a fortnight after war broke out in 1914, and he almost lost his life during the hostilities. He was wounded and given up for dead at Neuve Chapelle, where he lay for three days between the lines before being captured by the Germans. Although invalided out of active service, his damaged leg was not enough to prevent him resuming his cricket and in 1917 he secured a position as a cricket coach in India, a post he was lucky to assume after his original ship, the Nyanza was torpedoed shortly after leaving Plymouth. He resumed his playing career for Middlesex after the war and went on to score 1,000 runs in a season 13 times. He was awarded his county cap in 1913, after asking the formidable Plum Warner for the award. Warner had been under the impression that Lee already had his cap and corrected the oversight immediately. He scored runs in a dour, professional manner throughout the 1920s, with three double centuries including a career best 243 not out against Nottinghamshire at Lords. Sadly Lee was not given a cap for his solitary appearance for England, when he was drafted into Chapman's injury hit squad in South Africa in 1930/31, after a master at the school Lee had been coaching at complained to MCC that Lee had broken his contract. After Middlesex terminated his contract in 1934, Lee turned to umpiring then coaching at Downside School. He remained a familiar figure at Lords and was England's second oldest test cricketer at the time of his death. He wrote an autobiography entitled "Forty Years of English Cricket". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lee_(cricketer)
