Ernest Burdett: Difference between revisions

Burdett was the son of Reverend William Jerome Burdett and Eliza Katharine Toye.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mosley|first=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage|edition=107|volume=3rd volume|year=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd|page=586}}</ref>  He was educated at [[King's School, Bruton]].  Burdett was commissioned into the Indian Army on 17 August 1907, and his second annual officer's report places him in Allahabad in 1908, attached to 48 Pioneers.<ref>British Library L/Mil/14/11926</ref>  Listed in the [[London Gazette]], dated 11 February 1910, as serving in the [[Indian Army]] and as being promoted from [[second lieutenant]] to [[lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28338 |date=11 February 1910 |page=1046 }}</ref>  He served in the [[48th Pioneers]].  The following year it can be assumed that Burdett returned to [[England]] prior to July 1911, as he played five [[Minor Counties Championship]] matches for [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]] in that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13089/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ernest Burdett|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2022}}</ref>  Burdett served in the Indian Army during the [[First World War]] and was listed in the 6 April 1917 edition of the London Gazette, still serving in the 48th Pioneers and having been promoted to the rank of [[Captain (land)|captain]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30011 |date=6 April 1917 |page=3340 }}</ref>  From 1 October 1914 to 15 April 1916 he served in Mesopotamia; he is recorded as being a prisoner of war in Turkey from 15 April 1916. He eventually reached the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]] and officer commanding 3/20 Burma Rifles.  During the course of the war he was decorated with the [[Military Cross]] and later the [[Distinguished Service Order]].<ref name = "PER">{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p18847.htm|title=thepeerage.com page on the Burdett family|publisher=www.thepeerage.com|accessdate=20 March 2022}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2022}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref>

Fourteen years later he made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Railways cricket team|Railways A]] against [[Freelooters cricket team|Freelooters]].  He was dismissed for a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] in the Railways first-innings by [[Ladha Ramji]].  In their second-innings he scored 12 runs, before being dismissed by [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]].  Burdett made a single [[stumping]] in the match, stumping [[Ahmed Baporia]] from the bowling of [[P. Ramsey-Brown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14107.html|title=Freelooters v Railways A, 1931|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2022}}</ref>  The following year he played his second and final first-class match, this time for [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] against [[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13089/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ernest Burdett|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2022}}</ref>  In the Hyderabad first-innings, Burdett scored 37 runs before being dismissed by [[D.O. Daulatram]].  In the Karachi first-innings he stumped opening batsman [[Abdul Aziz (cricketer, born 1905)|Abdul Aziz]] and [[Catch (cricket)|caught behind]] [[Abbas Khan (cricketer)|Abbas Khan]] and [[Hyder Ali (Hyderabad cricketer)|Hyder Ali]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14502.html|title=Hyderabad v Karachi, 1932|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=20 March 2022}}</ref>  Burdett scored 49 runs in his two first-class matches, ending with a [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]] of 12.25.