Colonel Claud Lechmere St John Tudor (27 December 1888 – 3 August 1977) was a British Army officer and English cricketer active from 1910 to 1927, who played for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. He was born in Willingdon,

and died in

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. Tudor appeared in 19 first-class matches as a right-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

, scoring 640 runs with a highest score of 116. Tudor served with the

Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...

. For his services in the First World War, he was awarded the

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, and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle (4th class), and was invested as an Officer of the

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. His son was Geoffrey Tudor.Ancestry LifeStory: Geoffrey David Claud Tudor
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1888 births 1977 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers British Army cricketers Military personnel from East Sussex British Army personnel of World War I Royal Army Service Corps officers Recipients of the Military Cross Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Willingdon {{British-Army-bio-stub