Bernard Elgood
Bernard Cyril "Bruno" Elgood MBE (10 March 1922 – 10 July 1997) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Elgood was born at Hampstead and educated at Bradfield College.[1] The completion of his studies at Bradfield coincided with the Second World War, with Elgood enlisting in the British Army with the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant in November 1941.[2] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in January 1945, antedated to September 1944.[3] Following the war he attended Pembroke College, Cambridge.[4] He debuted in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Lancashire at Cambridge in 1948, a season in which he made all twelve of his first-class appearances for Cambridge in.[5] He scored 531 runs across these twelve matches, averaging 35.40.[6] He scored two centuries against Sussex and Middlesex,[7] with his highest score of 127 not out coming against the former.[8] Still serving in the army following the war, Elgood also played two first-class matches in 1948 for the Combined Services cricket team.[5] In 1949, he played minor counties cricket for Berkshire, making five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[9] Elgood was promoted to the rank of captain in March 1949,[10] with promotion to major in March 1956.[11] He was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 New Year Honours.[12] He was made a lieutenant colonel in January 1965.[13] Three years later he was made a colonel in June 1968.[14] He was promoted to the rank of brigadier in January 1971.[15] Elgood retired from military service in March 1976.[16] He died at Pauntley Place in Gloucestershire in July 1997. References
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