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Launcelot Edward Seth Ward CMG DSO (7 August 1875 – 27 August 1929) was a career soldier who commanded the First Battalion of the King's African Rifles in the First World War in East Africa. He also played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1913 and 1920. He was born at Apsley, Hertfordshire and died at Lambeth, London.

In major cricket databases he is referred to as "Lancelot"; the death notice placed by his family and the obituary in The Times in 1929 both give his name as "Launcelot".

Background and education

Ward was the fourth son of the Reverend Percival Seth Ward who, at the time of Launcelot's birth, was vicar of Apsley End, Hertfordshire and was later a vicar in Worcestershire. He was educated at Felsted School.

Military career

Ward joined the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from school and saw active service in India; he later transferred to the King's East African Rifles, eventually commanding the regiment and, at the start of the First World War, being in charge of all forces in East Africa. He held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel but was made an acting brigadier-general in operations in Western Europe later in the War, being twice wounded and twice mentioned in dispatches. He retired from the Army at the end of the war and from 1924 to 1929 was ADC to the Governor-General of Nyasaland, Sir Charles Calvert Bowring; his obituary states that he had bought property in what is now Malawi and was intending to retire there when he died after an operation in London.

References

  1. "Lancelot Ward". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  2. "Deaths". The Times. No. 45294. London. 29 August 1929. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Lieut.-Col. L. E. Seth Ward". The Times. No. 45294. London. 29 August 1929. p. 14.

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