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Henry Hendley Bond (13 June 1873 – 10 November 1919) was an Irish first-class cricketer and

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general. He came from a military familyhis father was Major-General Henry Bondand attended the

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. He was commissioned as an officer in the

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and served in India, England, Ireland and during the

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. During his time in India he played

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for the

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. He was later a gunnery instructor and a champion

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player. Upon the outbreak of the

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he was recalled to field service and commanded the 17th Battery of the

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during the

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, for which he was mentioned in dispatches by Field Marshal French. Bond later served with the British forces at

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and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel,

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colonel and temporary brigadier-general. Bond received the

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and was appointed as commander of the

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for his service. Towards the end of the war he began to suffer from a degenerative neurological condition and died in Dublin in 1919.

Early life

According to some sources, Bond was born at

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on 13 June 1873, but the registration of his birth indicates he was born in

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. He was the son of Major General

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and his wife Mary Earbery Bond (née Hendley). Both of his parents were born in Ireland. He was educated in England at

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. Bond later attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as a gentleman cadet and played in the academy's cricket team (including matches against the

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in 1891 and 1892).

Military career

After graduation Bond entered the

as a

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on 22 July 1892. He was promoted to the rank of

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in August 1895. He was posted to

in 1898, where he debuted in

for the

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in the 1898/99 Bombay Presidency tournament against the

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. He made a further four first-class appearances for the Europeans, all against the Parsees, up to 1900. Across his five matches, he scored a total of 107 runs at an

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of 15.28, with a high score of 41. Bond was promoted to the rank of

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on 6 April 1900. In 1902 he was serving with 136 Battery at Woolwich under the command of a Major Elton. Later that year, he served in the closing stages of the

. Bond was seconded to the

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on 9 July 1904 and did not return to regular army service until 25 August 1907. He was attached to the Royal Artillery's 15th Battery at

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, Ireland in 1908, which was then attached to the

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. He was appointed unit adjutant on 23 April 1908 and promoted to the rank of

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on 10 October 1909. Bond was seconded to the general staff on 1 April 1911 as a gunnery instructor. In the Irish Census of 1911 he is listed as living with his mother and sisters in

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, County Cork. In August 1911 he was chief umpire of a field artillery competition arranged by the National Artillery Association on

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. He declared the winner of the King's Prize for Field Artillery to be the 7th London Battery, who beat ten other units. In 1912 he played

for the Royal Artillery against the Royal Engineers in an annual match that was won by the engineers. At one stage he was the army racquets champion. By April 1914 he was the gunnery instructor at

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First World War and death

Bond returned to general service (from his staff/instructor position) on 5 August 1914, after the outbreak of the

. On 20 November he was

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by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), for his service during the

as commander of the 17th Battery of Royal Field Artillery. He served in the

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of lieutenant-colonel from 21 December 1914 to 4 January 1915. Bond returned to the general staff on 27 February 1915 and was appointed a 2nd grade staff officer on 4 April 1915 when he became a

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. He returned to his unit on 21 July 1915 and served with the British force at

. Bond was again granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel from 22 August, before receiving promotion to the permanent rank on 11 September. He was awarded the

in the

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and promoted to

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on 4 June 1917. Soon after this, his health began to deteriorate due to a degenerative neurological condition. He suffered with the disease for eighteen months, before dying at

Glasnevin Glasnevin (, also known as ''Glas Naedhe'', meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home t ...

in Dublin on 10 November 1919, at which point he held the temporary rank of

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. When his death was registered, the cause of death was given as "

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". Two months prior to his death, he had been appointed a commander of the

. He was buried in the churchyard near his family's home at

Castlelyons Castlelyons () is a small village in the east of County Cork, Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Barrymore.

, County Cork.

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