Ernest Burdett

Ernest Wyndham Burdett MC, DSO (5 September 1887 – 13 September 1962) was an English cricketer and Indian Army officer born in Roorkee, then in the British Raj. Burdett was a wicket-keeper. Burdett was the son of Reverend William Jerome Burdett and Eliza Katharine Toye. 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. Listed in the London Gazette, dated 11 February 1910, as serving in the Indian Army and as being promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant. 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 D

Ernest Burdett

Ernest Wyndham Burdett MC, DSO (5 September 1887 – 13 September 1962) was an English cricketer and Indian Army officer born in Roorkee, then in the British Raj. Burdett was a wicket-keeper. Burdett was the son of Reverend William Jerome Burdett and Eliza Katharine Toye. 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. Listed in the London Gazette, dated 11 February 1910, as serving in the Indian Army and as being promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant. 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 D