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{{Short description|English cricketer and British Army officer (1890–1918)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Eric Antony Rollo Gore-Browne
| birth_date = 13 June 1890
| birth_place = [[Ryde]], [[Isle of Wight]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1918|7|3|1890|6|13}}
| death_place = [[Namacurra]], [[Zambezia Province]], [[Portuguese Mozambique|Portuguese East Africa]]
| heightft =
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| nickname =
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| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1912/13
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 12
| bat avg1 = 6.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 12
| deliveries1 = 24
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 8 October
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/28959.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Eric Antony Rollo Gore-Browne''' (13 June 1890 – 3 July 1918) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer who was killed in action in the First World War.

==Early life and education==

Gore-Browne was the son of the Rev. Robert Melvill Gore-Brown (son of Rt. Rev. [[Harold Browne]]) and his wife Hon. Agnes Catharine Rollo, daughter of [[Lord Rollo|John, 10th Lord Rollo]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox-Davies |first1=Arthur Charles |title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority |date=1902 |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ag_T4xSCw-oC&dq=Eric+Antony+Rollo+Gore-Browne&pg=PA172 |access-date=18 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref> He was born at [[Ryde]] on the [[Isle of Wight]] in June 1890. He was educated firstly in [[Hampshire]] at [[Twyford School]] and Eastam's School at [[Southsea]]. From there he attended [[Oundle School]] in [[Northamptonshire]]. After completing his education, Gore-Browne decided on a career in the [[British Army]] and attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|pages=429–30}}</ref>

==Military career==

He graduated as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] into the [[Dorset Regiment|Dorsetshire Regiment]]. He spent some time with the regiment in [[British India]],<ref name="BOOK"/> during which he was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].

Gore-Brown was seconded to the [[King's African Rifles]] in December 1913.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28782|date=16 December 1913|page=9255}}</ref> He served with the Rifles in the [[First World War]], during which he was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in April 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29198|date=18 June 1915|page=5953|supp=y}}</ref> He was wounded in action on 21 September 1915 at [[Longido]] in [[German East Africa]]. He was evacuated {{convert|70|miles|km}} by stretcher and mule cart to where he was treated for his wounds.<ref name="BOOK"/> Upon his recovery he trained troops in [[Nairobi]] and was decorated with the ''[[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]]'' for his work in training troops in Nairobi and other places in East Africa.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30264|date=31 August 1917|page=9109|supp=y}}</ref> He had returned to active service by early 1918, where he commanded the fort at [[Namacurra]] in [[Portuguese Mozambique|Portuguese East Africa]]. The fort [[Battle of Namacurra|came under attack]] from 1–3 July by a superior German force commanded by [[Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]]. Seeing little option but to retreat, Gore-Browne ordered an orderly withdrawal of his forces toward a wide stream where he hoped to take up stronger defensive positions on its opposite bank. However, the retreat was not orderly and the troops under his command panicked. In the chaos nearly half of his force were either shot by the pursuing German forces, drowned, or were attacked by [[Nile crocodile|crocodiles]]. Gore-Browne himself drowned during the rout.<ref name="BOOK"/>

==Cricket career==

While in India, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1912/13 [[Bombay Quadrangular#Presidency Match|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13541/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Eric Gore-Browne |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-10-08 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 12 runs by [[M. D. Parekh]] in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[J. N. Elavia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38843/38843.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, 1912/13 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-10-08 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=28959}}

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[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1918 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ryde]]
[[Category:People educated at Oundle School]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Dorset Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:King's African Rifles officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)]]
[[Category:British military personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Deaths by drowning]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths in Mozambique]]

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