Personal Life
Born in Eastbourne in 1916, Michael Packe was the younger brother of Charles and Robert Packe, both of whom also played cricket for Leicestershire. He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Cambridge, where he read history. During World War II he served in the Royal Army Service Corps in the First Airborne Division, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1944 he was awarded the Dutch Bronze Cross after the Battle of Arnhem, and in late 1945 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1946 he was demobilised and moved to Alderney, where he grew vegetables commercially, wrote, and was involved in the island cricket team. He was married to Kathryn Packe, a niece of Edith Wharton. He died of a brain tumor on Alderney in 1978.
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