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Full name | Reginald Owen Edwards | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 October 1881 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 15 November 1925 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England | (aged 44)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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1920 | Norfolk | ||||||||||||||
1921–1922 | Cambridgeshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 15 July 2019 |
Reginald Owen Edwards (17 October 1881 – 15 November 1925) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Edwards was born at Great Yarmouth. He served in the First World War, being commissioned as a second lieutenant with the King's Royal Rifle Corps in September 1914. [1] He was made a temporary lieutenant in December 1914, [2] before being made a temporary captain in August 1915. [3] He was transferred to the Army Cyclist Corps in November 1915. [4] By December 1917, he was serving with the Tank Corps, [5] ceasing to belong to the Corps in July 1919, when he was transferred to the Royal Engineers. [6] He was badly gassed in the war. [7] He was made a temporary major in August 1919, [8] before relinquishing his commission in March 1920. [9]
After the war, he played minor counties cricket for Norfolk in 1920, making two appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. [10] He played minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire in 1921 and 1922, making two appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. [10] He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for The Rest against the Royal Air Force at Eastbourne in 1922. [11] Batting twice in the match at number eleven, he ended The Rest's first-innings unbeaten without scoring, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for a single run by Charlie Parker. [12] Edwards was a cricket enthusiast, often travelling around England to watch major matches, and was well known to many of the prominent county cricketers of the day. [7] He enjoyed travelling, spending a considerable amount of time in Africa, as well as travelling through Southern Russia, well known for doing so with a copy of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. [7] He died at Bishop's Stortford in November 1925.