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{{short description|Irish cricketer and Major}}
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| date              = 6 December
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Major '''Philip Albert Meldon''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DSO}} (18 December 1874 – 8 April 1942) was an Irish [[cricket]]er and a [[British Army]] officer in more than one war.

==Biography==
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest son of Sir Albert Meldon.<ref>{{cite TIWW|article=Meldon, Philip Albert}}</ref> He was commissioned as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Field Artillery]] on 28 March 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27177|date=27 March 1900|page=2040}}</ref> and was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 3 April 1901. From 1900 to 1902, he served with the 53rd Battery in South Africa during the [[Second Boer War]], and took part in the operations in the [[Transvaal Republic|Transvaal]], east of Pretoria, including engagements at [[Belfast, South Africa|Belfast]] and [[Lydenburg]]. He was wounded and return to the United Kingdom on board the {{SS|Simla}} in May 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – Invalids and others returning home|date=1 May 1902 |page=6 |issue=36756}}</ref> He was awarded a DSO in World War I.

In World War II, Meldon was on Special Employment Foreign Office, in 1940.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who|id=U229183|title=Meldon, Lt-Col Philip Albert}}</ref> He was held as a German prisoner from 1 April 1940.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} He died in London reportedly aged 68, on 8 April 1942.<ref>{{cite news |title=News Briefly |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000272/19420410/074/0004 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=10 April 1942|page=4}}</ref>

==Cricket and football==
Meldon played twice for the [[Irish cricket team]]; against [[I Zingari]] in August 1899 and against [[H. D. G. Leveson-Gower]]'s XI in 1905. He later played two [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] in 1911, against [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]].

Meldon also represented [[Ireland national football team (1882–1950)|Ireland]] at [[association football|football]], playing in two international matches in 1899.<ref>{{NFT player|pid=38357}}</ref>

==Family==
Meldon married in 1925 Albreda Bewicke-Copley.<ref name="WW"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire1289.htm Cricket Europe Stats Zone profile]
*{{cricinfo|id=17521}}

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