Minor Counties Championship 1914

MINOR COUNTIES CRICKETERS (1895 – 1914) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING WARS Bedfordshire BROWNING; Charles Hunter [1901] b Clapham, Bedfordshire 9.4.1878 d Le Cateau, Nord, France 26.8.1914. RHB, WK. 2ND: Kent. Captain 124th Battery 28th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Bat 2-4-1-6-3-2.00 ct 2 st 2 DAY; Francis Thomas Pressland [1910] b Roxton, Bedfordshire 10.12.1890 d Pas-de-Calais, France 25.5.1918. Son of J Day [Huntingdonshire]. Solicitor’s Articled Clerk. Captain 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment [Prince of Wales’s Own]. Bat 1-2-0-2-2-1.00 DUNHAM; Horace George [1914] b Luton, Bedfordshire 18.9.1892 d Somme, France 13.11.1916. RF. Assistant Baker. Private 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Bat 1-2-1-3-3-3.00 Bowl 19-0 GUTTERIDGE; Richard Charley [1910-1914] b Dunstable, Bedfordshire 1.12.1892 d Boutancourt, Ardennes, France 28.5.1918. Son of RW Gutteridge [Bedfordshire]. Lieutenant 2nd/6th Battalion attached 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Bat 5-7-1-93-41*-15.50 ct 4 Bowl 42-0 LINNELL; Robert McCheyne [1909-1910] b Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire 16.2.1881 d South Tidworth, Wiltshire 16.3.1915. Other: Federated Malay States. Medical Officer. Captain Royal Army Medical Corps. Bat 3-6-2-20-5*-5.00 Bowl 26-3-8.66-3/16 MACLEAR; Basil [1900-1909] b Southsea, Hampshire 7.4.1881 d north west of Wieltje, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium 24.5.1915. RHB, RF. Rugby Union [Ireland, Barbarians, Blackheath, Bedford, Monkstown, County Cork]. Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Bat 5-8-0-85-39-10.62 ct 3 Bowl 104-1-104.00-1/67 MORAN; Herbert James [1911] b Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India 17.1.1891 d Nord, France 25.9.1915. RHB, WK. Lieutenant 8th Gurkha Rifles. Bat 1-2-0-18-17-9.00 PEPPER; Charles ‘Charlie’ [1903] b Youghal, Co Cork, Ireland 6.6.1875 d La Clytte, Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium 13.9.1917. RHB, RM, LB. FC: Nottinghamshire. Cricket Professional. Serjeant 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters [Notts and Derby Regiment]. Bat 5-7-3-54-21*-13.50 ct 3 Bowl 46-3-15.33-2/10 RENNIE; Hugh Robert [1910] b Hove, Sussex 25.7.1892 d Poznan, Poland 10.7.1918. Second Lieutenant London Regiment [London Scottish] attached Cameron Highlanders. Bat 1-2-0-4-4-2.00 ct 1 Bowl 34-0 ROBERTS; Donald Farquharson [1912] b Streatham, Surrey 27.3.1892 d Cambrai, Nord, France 20.11.1917. Rugby Union [Bedford, Rosslyn Park]. Captain 4th Battalion attached 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. MC. Surname sometimes Farquharson-Roberts. Bat 1-2-0-9-8-4.50 ROWE; Ernest Fentiman [1895-1903] b Felsted, Essex 27.1.1866 d Bayswater, Middlesex 14.4.1918. WK. Other: Essex. Son of AW Rowe [Cambridge Town, Cambridge University]; Brother of FE Rowe [Essex, Cambridge University Past and Present]. Major 2nd Beds Regiment but also shown as 1st Garrison Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Also played for Berkshire. Bat 12-17-3-121-29-8.64 ct 8 st 6 Bowl 0-0 SOUTHWELL; Wilfrid Alan Glanville [1912] b Filey, Yorkshire 27.11.1893 d Hooge, West Flanders, Belgium 16.6.1915. Grandson of HG Southwell [Cambridge University]. Hockey [Bedfordshire]. Private 1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company. Bat 6-12-1-249-67-22.63-0-1 ct 1 WILLIAMS; Leslie [1907] b Mountfield, Sussex 29.1.1891 d near Serre, Somme, France 1.7.1916. Hockey [Kent]. Second Lieutenant 23rd [Tyneside Scottish] Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. Bat 1-2-0-17-13-8.50 ct 2 [including 1 as sub] Bowl 71-1-71.00-1/35 174