Major Eustace Crawley (19 April 1868 – 2 November 1914) was an English officer in the British Army and

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er. Crawley was educated at

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. He played seventeen first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1887 and 1889. He commissioned into the British Army as a

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in the

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on 7 August 1889, was promoted to lieutenant on 7 January 1891 and to

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on 17 November 1897. The following year he served in operations in Sierra Leone, for which he received the Medal with Sierra Leone clasp. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he served with his regiment in South Africa, where he took part in the relief of Kimberley (February 1900), engagements near Johannesburg and the

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(June 1900). He was then stationed in

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east of Pretoria (July to November 1900), and took part in the action at Wittebergen. For his service, he was

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, received the

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rank of

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on 29 November 1900, and the South Africa medal with four clasps. When the war ended in late 1902, Crawley went to Nigeria where he was seconded for service with the Northern Nigeria Regiment, and received the substantive rank of major on 9 December 1902. Crawley served in Belgium during World War I, where he was killed by a shell.

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* 1868 births 1914 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I People educated at Harrow School English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People from Highgate Cricketers from the London Borough of Islington 12th Royal Lancers officers {{England-cricket-bio-1860s-stub

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