Trevor Spring
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| Full name | Trevor Coleridge Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1882 Kidderpore, Bengal, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 March 1926 (aged 44) London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Not known | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1909–1910 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1912–1919 | Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 20 May 1909 Somerset v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 29 May 1919 Army v Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 15 December 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major Trevor Coleridge Spring DSO (6 March 1882 – 13 March 1926) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.[1] A right-handed batsman,[2] he played first-class cricket for Somerset and the Army between 1909 and 1919. He also played minor counties cricket for Devon.[3]
Spring was born in Kidderpore, Bengal, India, a descendant of the Suffolk Spring family. He was the son of the Reverend Henry Coleridge Spring and Constance Paynter, his father being a Chaplain to the Bengal establishment. He had been educated at Blundell's School before entering the Army.[4]
Military career
Spring was commissioned a Militia officer in the 4th Battalion, The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry), and embarked with the battalion for South Africa in March 1900, to serve in the Second Boer War. He was promoted to lieutenant on 4 February 1902,[5] and returned with his battalion to the United Kingdom three months later.[6] A commission into the regular army followed later that year, when he was appointed second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 3 September 1902.[7] He became a captain in March 1911.[8]
He fought in the First World War, was promoted to major in 1917 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order that same year.[9] He temporarily commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment for several months in 1917.[4]