Edmund Bury

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Edmond William Bury (4 November 1884 – 5 December 1915) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]

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He won the silver medal in the men's doubles competition together with Cecil Browning. In the men's singles event he did not participate.[2]

Bury was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War,[3] serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.[4]

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