Howard Cyril Frederick Vella Dunbar (20 October 1904 – 23 July 1942) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Colonel Benjamin Howard Vella Dunbar DSO and his wife Helen, he was born in British India at Poona. He moved to England at a young age with his parents, where he resided at Clapham Common. He was educated at Ampleforth College, where he played for the cricket XI. Deciding on a career in the British Army, Dundar attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He graduated into the Royal Tank Corps as a second lieutenant in August 1924, with promotion to lieutenant following in August 1926. He was posted to India in the final years of the 1920s, where he played first-class cricket. He made two appearances for the Europeans cricket team against the Mus