Ernest Herbert Relf (19 November 1888 – 27 July 1918) was an English cricketer active from 1912 to 1914 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

Sandhurst, Berkshire Sandhurst is a town and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest borough in Berkshire, England. It is in the south eastern corner of Berkshire, and is situated west-southwest of central London, north west of Camberley and south of Bracknell ...

and died in

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. He appeared in twelve first-class matches as a righthanded

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who

bowled In cricket, the term bowled has several meanings. First, is the act of propelling the ball towards the wicket defended by a batsman. Second, it is a method of dismissing a batsman, by hitting the wicket with a ball delivered by the bowler. (Th ...

right arm medium pace. He scored 232 runs with a highest score of 36 and took eight

wicket In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ...

s with a best performance of two for 24.Ernest Relf at CricketArchive
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Albert Relf Albert Edward Relf (26 June 1874 – 26 March 1937) was a professional cricketer who played for Sussex and England. Relf was an all-rounder who batted in the middle order and bowled off-breaks at medium pace with great accuracy. He played Min ...

(England and Sussex) and

Robert Relf Robert Edward Relf (1924 – 12 October 2014) was an English political activist of the far right. Regarded by his sympathisers as a 'race martyr', he briefly became a cause célèbre for the tabloid press in the 1970s. Early years Relf spent mo ...

(Sussex). Relf died on active service as a gunner in the

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during the

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1888 births 1918 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers British Army personnel of World War I Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers British military personnel killed in World War I Military personnel from Berkshire {{england-cricket-bio-1880s-stub