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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ronald Yeldham
| country = India
| fullname = Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|8|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Ahmednagar]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|8|14|1902|8|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Bodmin]], [[Cornwall]]
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans (India)]]
| year1 = 1925-1927
| club2 = Northern Punjab
| year2 = 1926
| club3 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]]
| year3 = 1926
| type1 = First-class
| debutdate1 = 6 March
| debutyear1 = 1925
| debutfor1 = Europeans
| debutagainst1 = [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]]
| lastdate1 = 5 December
| lastyear1 = 1927
| lastfor1 = Europeans
| lastagainst1 = Muslims
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 6
| runs1 = 148
| bat avg1 = 21.14
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 40[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 30
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = -
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 0/30
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/0
| date = 8 June
| year = 2008
| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/34/34362/34362.html
}}

Colonel '''Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (18 August 1902 – 14 August 1983) was an Indian-born [[British Army]] officer and [[cricket]]er.

==Career==
He served in Africa and the Indian Ocean from 1928 to 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80003943|title=Yeldham Ronald Ernest Stephen IWM interview (3960)|accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/36111.html Cricinfo profile]</ref> In June 1945, Yeldham was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) as temporary Colonel commanding the British troops in [[Mauritius]].<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37119/supplement/2942/data.pdf London Gazette issue 37119, 14 June 1945, supplement page 2942]</ref>

In 1949 Yeldham was a Principal in the [[Colonial Office]], West African Department, and wrote a memorandum (16 March) on Soviet activity in Nigeria. There was MI5 surveillance of [[Harry Pollitt]]'s contact with Mokwugo Okoye, a [[Zikist]] leader (Yeldham, memorandum in December of that year).<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Lynn|author-link=Martin Lynn|title=Nigeria: Managing political reform 1943-1953|volume=1|pages=181 and 261|year=2001|publisher=Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London|isbn=978-0-11-290597-4}}</ref> During the [[Malayan Emergency]], in 1952, he was instrumental in the use of [[sodium trichloroacetate]] as a [[defoliant]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon|title=Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3USYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198|date=3 May 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-30038-5|page=198}}</ref>

Yeldham then held civil appointments in Kenya, from 1954.<ref>{{cite book|title=Kenya Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UsZuSQ4oToC&pg=PA1322|date=21 December 1954|page=1322}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Kenya Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IEL7el9CGQC&pg=PP2|date=2 August 1955|page=2}}</ref>

==Cricketer==
Yeldham played six [[first-class cricket]] matches in [[British India]] between 1925 and 1927, including one for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]].<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/34/34362/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Ronald Yeldham] at CricketArchive</ref> He later played twice for [[Egypt national cricket team|Egypt]] against [[Hubert Martineau|HM Martineau's XI]].<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/34/34362/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Ronald Yeldham] at CricketArchive</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Sherwood Foresters officers]]
[[Category:Egyptian cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Northern Punjab cricketers]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Civil servants in the Colonial Office]]

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