Terence Battersby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Terence Battersby

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1972

Profession: military personnel, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Terence Battersby

  • Brigadier Terence Esmond Maxwell Battersby (29 October 1893 – 10 January 1972) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.
  • Battersby was a left-handed batsman.
  • He was born in Meerut, then in the British Raj, before moving back to England where he was educated at Marlborough College.
  • There he played for the college cricket team.Battersby represented Suffolk in the 1913 Minor Counties Championship, playing a single match against Lincolnshire.
  • Battersby was mentioned in the London Gazette in February 1914 as having graduated from the Royal Military College with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
  • After graduating he joined the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment who he served in the First World War within the regiments 1st Battalion.
  • He was once again mentioned in a supplement to the Gazette in 1920, detailing his special appointment to Vice Captain while still serving in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment.A decade later he made his first-class debut for the Europeans (India) against the Parsees, before playing a further first-class match in that 1923/24 season against the Hindus.
  • Returning to England once more, he played a further first-class match in 1926 for the Army against Oxford University.
  • In his three first-class appearances he scored 110 runs at a batting average of 18.33, with a high score of 41.
  • With the ball he took 2 wickets at a bowling average of 63.00. He later played Minor Counties Championship cricket for Devon, making his debut for the county in the 1930 Minor Counties Championship against Dorset.
  • He continued to play Minor counties cricket for Devon until the following season.
  • Battersby was in Devon as the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion of The Devonshire Regiment.
  • By 1940, Battersby was a Colonel in charge of the Infantry Record and Pay Office in Exeter.
  • Later in 1940, he was promoted to Acting Brigadier and in November 1940 he was placed as the commanding officer of the 216th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), a Home Defence brigade which formed part of the Northumberland County Division.
  • He held the position until 1 July 1941.
  • In 1943 he was promoted to Honorary Brigadier on the date of his retirement.
  • For the next ten years he was part of the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, until in 1953 his age meant he could no longer be a reserve officer.Battersby died on 10 January 1972 in Goring Heath, Berkshire.

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