Minor Counties Players War Deaths

BROUGHTON-ADDERLEY; Peter Handcock [Buckinghamshire 1911] b Athlone, Co Westmeath, Ireland 16.10.1891 d St Python, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, France 16.10.1918. Son of HJ Broughton-Adderley [Staffordshire]. Captain 1st Battalion Scots Guards. MC. Bat 1-1-0-0-0-0.00 BROWN; Douglas Crow [Wiltshire 1913-1914] b Liscombe Park, Soulbury, Wing, Buckinghamshire 27.8.1892 d Zuydcoote, Nord, France 13.9.1917. Brother of GD Brown. Lieutenant 2 nd Battalion Royal Scots attached Machine Gun Corps [Infantry]. Bat 7-13-1-219-48*-18.25 ct 3 Bowl 27-0 BROWN; Gerald Dick [Wiltshire 1909] b Westminster, Middlesex 14.8.1886 d Bailleul, Nord, France 14.4.1918. Other: Ceylon and Europeans. Brother of DC Brown. Major 1 st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment commanding 11 th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. MC. Bat 1-1-0-0-0-0.00 BROWNE; Harold Vernon [Dorset 1904-1911] b Buckland Park, South Australia 25.8.1885 d Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey 7.9.1915. Captain Dorset Yeomanry [Queen's Own]. Bat 21-36-9-510-73*-18.88-0-1 ct 14 Bowl 578-25-23.12-3/3 BROWNING; Charles Hunter [Bedfordshire 1901] b Clapham, Bedfordshire 9.4.1878 d Le Cateau, Nord, France 26.8.1914. RHB, WK. 2 ND : Kent. Captain 124 th Battery 28 th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Bat 2-4-1-6-3-2.00 ct 2 st 2 BUDGE; Hubert Lionel [Dorset 1898-1906] b Poole, Dorset 19.5.1878 d Carnoy, Somme, France 13.7.1916. Brother of WH Budge [Dorset]. Football [Dorset and Poole]. Lieutenant Colonel 12 th Battalion Royal Scots. Bat 6-10-1-81-27-9.00 ct 7 BURNS; William Beaumont [Staffordshire 1901-1902] b Rugeley, Staffordshire 29.8.1883 d Contalmaison, Somme, France 8.7.1916. RHB, RF. FC: Worcestershire, MCC, Gentlemen, Lord Londesborough’s XI, The Rest and HK Foster’s XI. 2 ND : Worcestershire. Son of JB Burns [Staffordshire]. Brother of JN Burns [Staffordshire] and TB Burns [Staffordshire]. Coal Merchant. Second Lieutenant 1 st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Bat 6-7-1-286-123-47.66-1-1 Bowl 20-1-20.00-1/20 BUTT; Harry Alfred [Suffolk 1905-1906] b Harpenden, Hertfordshire 25.11.1868 d Pont-du-Hem, La Gorgue, France 8.6.1916. WK. Schoolmaster. Captain 14 th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. Bat 2-4-0-2-2-0.50 st 1 BUTTERWORTH; Hugh Montagu [Wiltshire 1904-1906] b Saffron Walden, Essex 11.11.1885 d Hooge, Belgium 25.9.1915. FC: Oxford University and MCC. Other: Wanganui [New Zealand]. Hockey [Oxford University]. Rackets [Oxford University]. Schoolmaster. Captain 9 th Battalion Rifle Brigade. Bat 21-34-0-667-122-19.61-1-2 ct 5 CALLENDER; Reginald Henry ‘Reg’ [Durham 1914] b Bishopton, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham 31.8.1892 d Armentieres, Nord, France 5.10.1915. Football [England Amateurs, Stockton, Cambridge University, Glossop and Derby County]. Second Lieutenant 17 th Battalion attached 1 st /9 th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Bat 4-7-0-80-43-11.42 ct 1 CARTER; George Thomas [Norfolk 1913-1914] b Magdalen, Norfolk 10.7.1896 d Um-Al-Hannah, Mesopotamia 10.3.1916. Brother of RD Carter [East and Norfolk]. Uncle of DD Carter [Norfolk]. Second Lieutenant 10 th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Bat 3-4-0-68-48-17.00 ct 2 Bowl 5-1-5.00-1/5 CHAYTOR; Alban Kingsford [Worcestershire 2 nd XI 1907] b Worcester 24.10.1890 d La Clytte, Belgium 26.5.1915. Cousin of HJ Chaytor [Worcestershire]. Second Lieutenant 6 th Battalion attached 3 rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Bat 2-4-0-22-14-5.50 ct 2 CHEALES; Clement Bellingham [Lincolnshire 1895] b Friskney, Lincolnshire 6.4.1876 d Alexandria, Egypt 5.9.1915. RHB, underarm. Brother of AE Cheales [Lincolnshire] & JP Cheales [Lincolnshire and Wiltshire]. Able Seaman Hawke Battalion Royal Navy Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Bat 3-6-1-38-13-7.60 ct 1 Bowl 12-0 CHERRY; Alfred Douglas [Dorset 1914] b Blandford Forum, Dorset 31.5.1889 d Wancourt, Arras, France 4.4.1917. Clerk. Captain Dorsetshire Regiment attached 6 th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. Bat 1-2-0-42-37-21.00 Bowl 93-3-31.00-3/93 CLIFF; Grosvenor Talbot [Lincolnshire 1914] b Scawby Grove, Lincolnshire 27.9.1880 d Tincourt, Somme, France 10.2.1918. Brother of AT Cliff [Worcestershire]. Major 3 rd Dragoon Guards [Prince of Wales' Own]. Bat 3-6-2-21-17-5.25 ct 1 COLEMAN; Edward Charles [Essex 2 nd XI 1914] b Southend-on-Sea, Essex 5.9.1891 d Salonika, Greece 2.4.1917. LHB, WK. FC: Essex and Oxford & Cambridge Universities. Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery attached ‘A’ Trench Mortar Battery 114 th Brigade. Bat 6-11-0-100-33-9.09 ct 10 Bowl 22-1-22.00-1/13 COOKE; Hans Hendrick Anthony [Cambridgeshire 1909] b Comragh, Waterford, Ireland 24.5.1884 d Ngwembe, German East Africa 24.1.1917. Football [Casuals]. Captain Connaught Rangers attached 3 rd Nigeria Regiment West African Frontier Force. Bat 1-2-1-1-1-1.00 Bowl 78-5-15.60-3/54