Austin Bird
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| Full name | Austin Carlos Bird | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 1884 Croxteth, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 January 1938 (aged 53) Buxted, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | George Bird (father) Morice Bird (brother) Alan Bird (son) Walter Bird (uncle) Charles Clarke (uncle) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1914 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||
Austin Carlos Bird (26 January 1884 — 4 January 1938) was an English first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer.
The son of the cricketer
39th Prince of Wales's Own Central India Horse, in which he was promoted to lieutenant in November 1906.[3] He gained the rank of captain in August 1913, at which point he was serving in the 73rd Carnatic Infantry.[4]
Bird returned to England in 1914, where he played a single
First World War, where he played minor cricket matches for North-West Frontier Province in March 1919 and later Quetta in 1925 and 1926.[7] By 1930, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel.[8] Bird later retired to England, where he died suddenly on 4 January 1938 at his residence in Buxted, Sussex.[9] His brother was the Test cricketer Morice Bird. His own son, Alan, was also a first-class cricketer, as were his uncles Walter Bird and Charles Clarke
.
References
- ^ Bullock, Edward Clifford; Milward, Laurence Sidney (1905). The Malvern Register, 1865-1904. Malvern: Malvern Advertiser. p. 412.
- ^ "No. 27704". The London Gazette. 12 August 1904. p. 5217.
- ^ "No. 28005". The London Gazette. 19 March 1907. p. 1929.
- ^ "No. 28765". The London Gazette. 17 October 1913. p. 7253.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Austin Bird". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire, 1914". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Teams Austin Bird played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ The Indian Army List. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch. 1932. p. 131.
- Kent & Sussex Courier. 14 January 1938. p. 10