Ernest Burdett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernest Burdett

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1887

Place of Birth: Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1962

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ernest Burdett

  • Ernest Wyndham Burdett MC, DSO (5 September 1887 – 13 September 1962) was an English cricketer and Indian Army officer born in Roorkee, then in the British Raj.
  • Burdett was a wicket-keeper. Burdett was the son of Reverend William Jerome Burdett and Eliza Katharine Toye.
  • He was educated at King's School, Bruton.
  • Burdett was commissioned into the Indian Army on 17 August 1907, and his second annual officer's report places him in Allahabad in 1908, attached to 48 Pioneers.
  • Listed in the London Gazette, dated 11 February 1910, as serving in the Indian Army and as being promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant.
  • He served in the 48th Pioneers.
  • The following year it can be assumed that Burdett returned to England prior to July 1911, as he played five Minor Counties Championship matches for Devon in that year.
  • Burdett served in the Indian Army during the First World War and was listed in the 6 April 1917 edition of the London Gazette, still serving in the 48th Pioneers and having been promoted to the rank of captain.
  • From 1 October 1914 to 15 April 1916 he served in Mesopotamia; he is recorded as being a prisoner of war in Turkey from 15 April 1916.
  • He eventually reached the rank of lieutenant colonel and officer commanding 3/20 Burma Rifles.
  • During the course of the war he was decorated with the Military Cross and later the Distinguished Service Order.Fourteen years later he made his first-class debut for Railways A against Freelooters.
  • He was dismissed for a duck in the Railways first-innings by Ladha Ramji.
  • In their second-innings he scored 12 runs, before being dismissed by Amar Singh.
  • Burdett made a single stumping in the match, stumping Ahmed Baporia from the bowling of P.
  • Ramsey-Brown.
  • The following year he played his second and final first-class match, this time for Hyderabad against Karachi.
  • In the Hyderabad first-innings, Burdett scored 37 runs before being dismissed by D.O.
  • Daulatram.
  • In the Karachi first-innings he stumped opening batsman Abdul Aziz and caught behind Abbas Khan and Hyder Ali.
  • Burdett scored 49 runs in his two first-class matches, ending with a batting average of 12.25. Burdett married Hebe Etheldreda Ellen Curwen Collis on 17 November 1919.
  • They had two children: Elizabeth Sylvia Burdett (1921–1984) and Arlingham Jerome D'Arcy Burdett (1922–1995).
  • Burdett spent his later life in England, where on 13 September 1962 he died in Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire.

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