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{{Use British English|date=July 2020}}
{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Henry Rosher
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Henry Louis Rosher
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|05|07|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|04|14|1866|05|07|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Shaibah|Shaiba]], Mesopotamia
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1912
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 13
| bat avg1 = 13.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 13
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/0
| date = 31 July
| year = 2020
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/33300.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Henry Louis Rosher''' (7 May 1866 – 14 April 1915) was an English [[First-class cricket|first-class]] cricketer and [[British Army]] officer.

==Life and career==
Born at [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]] in May 1866, Rosher was educated at [[Tonbridge Grammar School]] and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name="RollofHonour">{{Cite web |title=THE CARPENTERS' COMPANY ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-1918 |url=http://www.carpentersco.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Roll-of-Honour-WW1.pdf |access-date=31 July 2020 |website=Carpenters' Company |page=1}}</ref> Commissioned as a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Dorsetshire Regiment]] on 7 February 1885, Rosher was promoted to [[Captain (rank)|captain]] on 19 November 1891.<ref name="LG1">{{London Gazette| issue = 25439| date = 6 February 1885| page = 523}}</ref><ref name="LG2">{{London Gazette| issue = 26228| date = 1 December 1891| page = 6650}}</ref> Posted in [[Malta]] and [[British Egypt|Egypt]], Rosher was transferred to [[British Raj|British India]] in 1893, the same year he married Lillian Hall.<ref name="RollofHonour" /> From 1897, he was stationed in [[Madras]] as a [[Deputy Assistant Adjutant General]] under [[George Wolseley]]. He was in South Africa for service in the [[Second Boer War]], and was promoted to [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] after the end of this war, on 23 August 1902,<ref>Hart′s Army list, 1903</ref> before returning to India on the SS ''Ionian'' in November 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The Army in South Africa - Movement of Troops |day_of_week=Thursday |date=20 November 1902 |page_number=11 |issue=36930}}</ref> Promotion to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] followed in 1910.<ref name="RollofHonour" /><ref name="Tonbridge">{{Cite web |title=ROSHER, HENRY LOUIS |url=http://tonbridgeatwar.daisy.websds.net/Authenticated/ViewDets.aspx?RecID=317&TableName=ta_factfile |access-date=31 July 2020 |website=Tonbridge at War}}</ref>

Rosher appeared in one first-class match for [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] at the [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground]] on 29 August 1912.<ref name="CricketArchive1">{{Cite web |title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Rosher |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14476/First-Class_Matches.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=31 July 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> During the match, Rosher [[Catch (cricket)|caught]] [[CV Metha]] off the [[Bowling (cricket)|bowling]] of [[Elliot Tillard]] and scored 13 [[Run (cricket)|runs]] before himself being caught by [[Palwankar Vithal]] off the bowling of [[JM Rasker]].<ref name="CricketArchive2">{{Cite web |title=JC Greig's XI v Hindus in 1912/13 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8886.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=31 July 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in August 1914, Rosher was commanding the 2nd Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, which was part of the [[16th Indian Brigade]] stationed in [[Poona]].<ref name="RollofHonour" /> The battalion was ordered to the [[Persian Gulf]], where they [[Fao Landing|landed]] at [[Al-Faw Peninsula|Fao]] in November 1914 as part of the [[Indian Expeditionary Force]].<ref name="RollofHonour" /><ref name="Tonbridge" /> During the [[Mesopotamian campaign]], Rosher was [[mentioned in despatches]] twice, once at the [[Battle of Basra (1914)|fall]] of [[Basra]], and again at the [[Battle of Shaiba]].<ref name="Final Wicket">{{Cite book |last=McCrery |first=Nigel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3BhCgAAQBAJ |title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War |publisher=Pen & Sword |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-47382-714-1 |location=Barnsley |pages=94 |author-link=Nigel McCrery}}</ref> On 14 April 1915, the third day of the latter battle, Rosher was [[killed in action]] leading a [[bayonet charge]] against [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces.<ref name="RollofHonour" /><ref name="Final Wicket" /> He is buried at the [[Basra War Cemetery]].<ref name="CWGC">{{CWGC|id=631417|name=Henry Louis Rosher|access-date=31 July 2020}}</ref>

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[[Category:1866 births]]
[[Category:1915 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Edmonton, London]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Tonbridge Grammar School]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Dorset Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British military personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Burials at Basra War Cemetery]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War]]

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