Ernest Remnant

Remnant served in the British Army during the war as a non-commissioned officer with the 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, alongside peers from Hampshire.^[10][11] He served for a proportion of the war in British India, where he played three first-class matches. The first of these was for an England XI against India at Bombay in December 1915, with the match played in aid of the Women's Branch of the Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund.^[12] His second and third matches both came for the Europeans cricket team against the Hindus and the Parsees in the 1916–17 Bombay Quadrangular.^[2] He was invalided out of active service in 1919, a year after the war had ended.^[13]

Remnant resumed his first-class career with Hampshire in 1920, making eleven appearances in the County Championship.^[2] Though he did not have success with the bat in his return season, he nonetheless took 25 wickets and claimed one five wicket haul.^[5] His best season as a bowler came in 1921,^[11] when his eighteen matches yielded him 46 wickets at an average of 23.89, with four five wicket hauls;^[5] amongst these were his career best figures of 8 for 61 against Essex at Colchester.^[1] After four first-class appearances in 1922, Remnant retired. In total, he made 121 appearances in first-class cricket for Hampshire, scoring 2,843 runs at a batting average of 17.33.^[14] With the ball, he took 170 wickets at an average of 27.35,^[15] taking five wickets or more in an innings on seven occasions.^[1] When his first-class career came to an end, Remnant was employed as the assistant cricket coach at Harrow School. He was also renowned as a fine wood carver; his home in Harrow depicted carved scenes from the Battle of Hastings.^[1] Remnant died at Harrow on 18 March 1969.^[1]

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