Bodyline fielding on the boundary as he changed position for the final time. Jardine was appointed captain of England for the 1931 season, replacing Percy Chapman who had led the team in 1930. He defeated New Zealand in his first series, but opinion was divided as to how effective he had been. The following season, he led England again and was appointed to lead the team to tour Australia for the 1932–33 Ashes series. A meeting was arranged between Jardine, Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a
Thomas Bowler (RAF officer) in England and the Middle East. He started his service in the Second World War as a wing commander, ending the war as an air commodore. He was promoted to air-vice marshal in 1947. Bowler was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 7 June 1951, having retired from the Royal Air Force two months earlier. Thomas Bowler (RAF officer) Air-Vice Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Bowler (1 March 1895 – 5 September 1974) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. Bowler was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. He joined the British Army at the outbreak of the