Personal information | |||
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Full name | Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown [1] | ||
Date of birth | 21 July 1877 | ||
Place of birth | Clifton, England | ||
Date of death | 7 July 1916[2] | (aged 38)||
Place of death | Corbie, France | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Old Carthusians | |||
Free Foresters | |||
Corinthian | |||
Old Salopians | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown (21 July 1877 – 7 July 1916) was an English cricketer and footballer.
Wreford-Brown was a right-handed batsman who, after captaining Charterhouse School's cricket team, later played for Gloucestershire. [3] He made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1900 season, against Middlesex. [4] From the tailend, he scored five runs in the only innings in which he batted. [4]
Wreford-Brown played football for Charterhouse School and later as a senior player for amateur clubs Old Carthusians, Free Foresters, Corinthian and Old Salopians. [3] He won the 1898–99 London Senior Cup with Old Carthusians and the 1902–03 Arthur Dunn Challenge Cup with Old Salopians. [3]
Wreford-Brown's older brother, Charles and nephew, Anthony, both played first-class cricket. [5] He was educated at a number of schools, before joining Charterhouse School in 1891. [3] He later spent time in Canada and in 1902, became a member of the Stock Exchange and a partner in a law firm. [3]
In November 1914, during the early months of the First World War, Wreford-Brown was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers as a temporary lieutenant. [1] His regiment arrived on the Western Front in July 1915, [6] two months after his brother Claude had been killed in West Flanders. [7] Wreford-Brown was promoted to temporary captain on 8 September 1915. [3] On 5 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, Wreford-Brown's promotion to full captain was confirmed, but he was mortally wounded in the leg by a shell near Fricourt and died two days later at 5th Casualty Clearing Station in Corbie. [8] He was buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery. [2]