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{{short description|English cricketer and British Indian Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Geoffrey Martin Warren
| birth_date = 2 March 1908
| birth_place = [[New Alresford|Alresford]], [[Hampshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|11|21|1908|3|2|df=yes}}
| death_place = Sidi Razegh, [[Cyrenaica]], [[Italian Libya]]
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 4
| bat avg1 = 4.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 3
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/1
| date = 17 December
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/35952.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Geoffrey Martin Warren''' (2 March 1908 – 21 November 1941) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

== Early life and education ==
The son of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Bliss Warren and his wife, Margaret, he was born at [[New Alresford|Alresford]] in March 1908. Warren was educated at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]], where he decided to pursue a career in the [[British Army]]. He graduated from the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College at Sandhurst]] into the [[Royal Tank Regiment|Royal Tank Corps]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in February 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33353|date=3 February 1928|page=766}}</ref><ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last=McCrery |first=Nigel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=[[Pen and Sword Books|Pen and Sword]] |isbn=978-1526706980 |volume=2nd |pages=146–7 |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Warren was posted to [[British India]] in 1930, receiving his promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] while there in February 1931.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33686|date=3 February 1931|page=748}}</ref> Warren played [[first-class cricket]] in India for the [[Roshanara Bagh|Roshanara Club]], making a single appearance against a Viceroy's XI at [[Delhi]] in February 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14836/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Warren|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-12-17|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as a [[wicket-keeper]] he took a single catch and made [[stumping]], in addition to batting in both of the Roshanara Club's innings'. He batted at [[Batting order (cricket)#Lower order or tail|number eleven]] in their first innings, ending it [[not out|unbeaten]] having scored a single run. In their second innings he was promoted to [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batters|open the batting]], scoring three runs before being dismissed by [[Eustace Hill (cricketer, born 1896)|Eustace Hill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14543.html|title=Roshanara Club v Viceroy's XI, 1932/33|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-12-17|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He departed India in 1935.<ref name="BOOK" />

Warren returned to England, where he took up the post of instructor at [[Lulworth Camp]] in 1937,<ref name="BOOK" /> with promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] following in October of the same year.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34443|date=12 October 1937|page=6307}}</ref> He remained at Lulworth throughout the first year of the [[Second World War]], before being sent to the Middle East as a squadron commander in November 1940. He served in Greece during the [[Greco-Italian War|Italian invasion]], where he was second in command of the [[6th Royal Tank Regiment]]. Following the [[German invasion of Greece|German intervention]] and subsequent Allied defeat in Greece, Warren saw action in the [[North African campaign]] and led the advance into [[Italian Libya]] in November 1941.

== Personal life ==
Warren was fatally wounded during the [[Operation Crusader#Sidi Rezegh|action at Sidi Rezegh]] and was captured by German forces. He was buried at the [[Knightsbridge War Cemetery]] in Libya and was survived by his wife, Margaret, and their son Brian.<ref name="BOOK" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Montague-Smith |first=Patrick W. |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |date=2000 |publisher=[[Debrett's|Debrett's Peerage Limited]] |page=1079 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCQrAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=35952}}

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[[Category:1908 births]]
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[[Category:Military personnel from Hampshire]]
[[Category:People from Alresford]]
[[Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Royal Tank Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Roshanara Club cricketers]]
[[Category:British World War II prisoners of war]]
[[Category:British Army personnel killed in World War II]]
[[Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Germany]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Hampshire]]

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