Coote Hedley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Coote Hedley

Soldier, engineer, and sportsman

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1865

Place of Birth: Oake, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1937

Profession: military personnel, engineer, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Coote Hedley

  • Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley (12 December 1865 – 27 December 1937) was a British Army officer who began his career in the Royal Engineers and later moved into military intelligence.
  • He was also a gifted amateur sportsman who played first-class cricket for several County Championship sides and competed to a high level in rackets and golf. Hedley was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884.
  • He became a surveyor in the 1890s and was attached to the Ordnance Survey.
  • This work was interrupted by service in South Africa throughout the Second Boer War, and from 1906–1908 by his appointment as an advisor to the Survey of India.
  • In 1911 he was appointed to command MO4, also known as the Geographical Section of the General Staff.
  • During the First World War this organisation was responsible for producing all the maps required by British Empire forces around the world, and in particular mapping the ever-changing trench system on the Western Front.
  • Following the end of the war, he retired from the army in 1920.
  • He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and served on the society's council. Hedley's first-class cricket career began in 1888 with the Gentlemen of England and Kent County Cricket Club.
  • The majority of his county matches were for Somerset County Cricket Club whom he first represented in 1886 in non-first-class games.
  • His first County Championship games for them were in 1892, and he had a regular place in the side from June of that year.
  • Hedley was also a useful rackets player—reaching the final of the amateur championships, held at the Queen's Club, in 1890.
  • In later life he turned to golf, playing off a scratch handicap.

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