William Frederick Oliver Faviell (5 June 1882 – 4 February 1950) was a British Army officer and

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er who played for Essex between 1903 and 1910.

Military career

Faviell was commissioned into the 3rd ( Militia) Battalion of the

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in November 1900. He received a commission in the regular army as a

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in the Worcestershire Regiment on 30 April 1902, and was stationed with his battalion in Orange River Colony to secure the peace after the end of the Second Boer War in June 1902. He left Cape Town for the United Kingdom four months later, on the SS ''Orient'' which arrived at Southampton in November 1902.

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* * 1882 births 1950 deaths English cricketers Essex cricketers People from Loughton Europeans cricketers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War East Surrey Regiment officers Worcestershire Regiment officers Cricketers from Essex {{England-cricket-bio-1880s-stub