Robert Airey
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| Full name | Robert Berkeley Airey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1874 Southminster, Essex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 June 1933 (aged 58) Westminster, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1911 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 10 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colonel Robert Berkeley Airey, CMG, DSO (21 September 1874 – 23 June 1933) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Hampshire during the 1911 season. He was born in Southminster and died in Westminster Pier.
Airey played just three matches for the Hampshire first-team, scoring 30 runs in his debut first-class innings, his single best score in any first-class match. He played in the return fixture just two weeks later, but failed to make much of an impact with the bat, scoring a duck in his first innings.
His final first-class game, at the end of the month, saw him dismissed for a duck in the one and only innings in which he played.
Airey attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and joined the South Wales Borderers as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1895. After promotion to lieutenant, he transferred to the Army Service Corps in 1899, and was promoted to captain on 1 January 1901.[1] He saw active service in the Second Boer War in South Africa, from which he returned in September 1902.[2] He worked with the Egyptian Army from 1902 to 1907.[3] For his service in the First World War, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (for operations in France and Flanders) (1918) and earning the Distinguished Service Order (1916).[4]
References
- ^ Hart´s Army list, 1903
- ^ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36857. London. 27 August 1902. p. 6. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ Who's Who: Men and Women of the Time. 1926. p. 24. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "No. 30716". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1918. p. 6453.
External links
- Robert Airey at Cricket Archive