Michael Harbottle
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| Full name | Michael Neale Harbottle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
7 February 1917 Littlehampton, Sussex, England |
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| Died | 30 April 1997 (aged 80) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1936–1956 | Dorset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brigadier Michael Neale Harbottle, OBE (7 February 1917 – 30 April 1997) was a senior British Army officer who was Chief of Staff of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus from 1966 to 1968, a peace campaigner and cricketer.
Michael Harbottle was born in Littlehampton, Sussex and educated at Marlborough College from 1930 to 1935 and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from 1935 to 1937. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1937.
Harbottle was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox, he played a first-class cricket match for the Army in 1937 against Oxford University. He had considerable success in the match, scoring 156 runs in his only first-class innings, before being dismissed by Desmond Eagar. He also played for Dorset at a Minor counties level from 1937 to 1956, although infrequently due to his military commitments. He played cricket for the Army to 1959 and captained the team in that year.
He served in Italy during the Second World War as a company commander. He was wounded and in 1944 received a Mention in Despatches. Harbottle commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) at Knook Camp, near Warminster, Wiltshire, from 1959 to 1962 and was Garrison Commander in Aden from 1962 to 1964. He commanded 129 Infantry Brigade, TA, at Oxford, from 1964 to 1966. Harbottle was Chief of Staff of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus from 1966 to 1968. After two years in the post the UN Secretary General U Thant requested that Harbottle remained as Chief of Staff of the UN Force in Cyprus; however the Ministry of Defence declined to support his continuation in the role. He retired from the Army in 1968.
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