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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Infobox cricketer
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| country = England
| fullname = Michael Fitzroy Talbot Baines
| birth_date = 3 September 1898
| birth_place = [[Kasauli]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1990|3|9|1898|9|3}}
| death_place = [[South Newton]], Wiltshire, England
| nickname =
| family = [[Threlfall Baines]] (cousin)
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| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium-fast]]
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| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
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| date = 4 April
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| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9462.html Cricinfo
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'''Michael Fitzroy Talbot Baines''' {{postnominal|OBE|DL|JP}} (3 September 1898 – 9 March 1990) was an English first-class cricketer and [[British Army]] officer. Graduating from the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], Baines served in the [[Royal Artillery]] during the [[First World War]]. Alongside a military career that lasted for thirty years, he also played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[British Army cricket team]], as well as serving as the [[deputy lieutenant]] for Bedfordshire. He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1954 and was one of the oldest surviving first-class cricketers at the time of his death.

==Early life and WWI==
The son of Major Edward Baines, he was born at [[Kasauli]] in [[British India]], before being educated at [[Cheltenham College]] in England.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes |date=1969 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKIWAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> From Cheltenhem he attended the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], graduating in August 1916 and entering into the [[Royal Artillery]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29723|date=25 August 1916|page=8403}}</ref> He served on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in the [[First World War]], where he was initially posted to [[Rouen]].<ref name="IWM">{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80018574 |title=Baines, Michael Fitzroy Talbot |publisher=Imperial War Museum |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref> He later served at [[Armentières]], [[Ploegsteert Wood]], and [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]].<ref name="IWM"/> During the course of the war, he was wounded by shrapnel, with his wound becoming infected and requiring treatment in the base hospital at [[Wimereux]].<ref name="IWM"/> In the later stages of the war he served at the [[Ypres Salient]], before seeing action during the [[German spring offensive]] and at the [[Battle of Amiens (1918)|Battle of Amiens]].<ref name="IWM"/> He contracted [[Spanish flu]] in 1918, which saw him hospitalised to [[Le Tréport]].<ref name="IWM"/> He was promoted to the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in February 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30666|date=30 April 1918|page=5342|supp=y}}</ref>

Following the allied victory, he was posted to [[Cologne]] in 1919 as part of the [[British Army of the Rhine|Army of Occupation]], serving in [[Upper Silesia]] with the 65th Battery, 8th (Howitzer) Brigade in 1921–1922.<ref name="IWM"/> During a peacekeeping patrol along the German–Polish frontier, he was shot at by a Polish sentry while attempting to cross a river, but was unharmed.<ref name="IWM"/>

==Later military career and life==
Eight years after the conclusion of the war, Baines made an appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[British Army cricket team]] against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] at [[Fenner's]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27613/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Michael Baines |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=4 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] in the Army's first-innings by [[Samuel Jagger]], while in their second-innings he remained [[not out|unbeaten]] without scoring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11875.html |title=Cambridge University v Army, 1926 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=4 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He was seconded from the Royal Artillery to the [[Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey]] as an [[adjutant]] with the local rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in May 1927.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33281|date=3 June 1927|page=3629}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33281|date=3 June 1927|page=3630}}</ref> By 1929, he was serving as a temporary captain in the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33488|date=23 April 1929|page=2696}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33492|date=7 May 1929|page=3008}}</ref> with restoration to the active list in March 1932.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33824|date=10 May 1932|page=3052}}</ref> He attended the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Staff College]] in January 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33904|date=20 January 1933|page=442}}</ref> He was seconded for service on the Staff in December 1936,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34345|date=1 December 1936|page=7735}}</ref> serving in British India as Staff Captain from 1 December 1936 to 25 April 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34368|date=5 February 1937|page=795}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34631|date=2 June 1939|page=3712|supp=y}}</ref> He served during the [[Second World War]] with the Royal Artillery, retiring in May 1946 on account of disability, upon which he was granted the honorary rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37562|date=10 May 1946|page=2271|supp=y}}</ref>

He was appointed as a [[justice of the peace]] for Bedfordshire in 1950,<ref>{{cite book |title=Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review |date=1950 |volume=114 |publisher=Justice of the Peace, Ltd. |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uagwAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> and was appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1954 Birthday Honours]], having also served as a [[deputy lieutenant]] for [[Bedfordshire]]. He died in March 1990 at [[South Newton]], Wiltshire.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228713.html |title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1990 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=5 April 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Prior to his death, he was one of the oldest surviving first-class cricketers.<ref name="OBIT"/> His cousin, [[Threlfall Baines]], was also a first-class cricketer.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=9462}}

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