Charles Backman
Charles James "'Rappie" Backman' was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for South Australia in the 1911–12 Sheffield Shield season. He was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign and was the first Australian cricketer who played in the Sheffield Shield to be killed in World War I.
Family
One of the nine children of Kaspar Swanton Charles Maclean Bachman, and Mary Anne Backman, née Reid, Charles James Bachman, was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 14 April 1884.One of his brothers, Edward John Backman, and one of his brothers-in-law, Arthur John Benton, also served in the First AIF.