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Gustavus Henry Spencer Fowke (14 October 1880 – 24 June 1946) was an English army officer and also a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire and the Army between 1899 and 1927.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Player Profile: Gustavus Fowke )〕 He was born in Brighton, Sussex and died at Wansford, then in Northamptonshire, now in Cambridgeshire. ==Soldier and cricketer== Fowke was educated at Uppingham School and played his first senior cricket after leaving school in the summer of 1899: he appeared in four matches for Leicestershire and in the third of them, opening the batting, he scored 55 against Hampshire. Fowke then joined the British Army and was recorded in October 1900 as "Trooper G. H. S. Fowke" as having been elevated temporarily to the rank of lieutenant in the 18th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. The 18th Battalion was part of a unit nicknamed the "Sharpshooters" and they were deployed in the Boer War in South Africa from May 1900.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Imperial Yeomanry Battalions )〕 Fowke was taken prisoner in March 1901, but released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 UK, Casualties of the Boer War, 1899-1902: G. H. S. Fowke )〕 Less than a year after his elevation, Fowke "relinquished" his commission in August 1901. The war over, Fowke rejoined the Army as a lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders: he is recorded as having been promoted from second lieutenant to full lieutenant in 1906. There was a further promotion to captain in 1911. Records are then absent until he retires from the army with the rank of major – a title he used for the rest of his life – in 1919 after the end of the First World War. He appears to have spent much of the war as a prisoner of war: he was posted as missing on 24 October 1914 and not repatriated until 18 November 1918.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 British Army Medal Rolls WWI: Gustavus Fowke )〕〔The third initial is incorrect in the citation. (【引用サイトリンク】 UK, British Officer Prisoners of War: G. H. G. Fowke )〕 Fowke's military career restricted his cricket opportunities. He appeared in minor matches for Punjab in 1903; and he reappeared for Leicestershire in matches in 1908 and 1911. One of his three matches in 1911 was against Derbyshire at Chesterfield when Aubrey Sharp made 216 in 250 minutes, and Fowke, who scored 67, helped him to put on 262 for the sixth wicket, which remained the Leicestershire record for this wicket until beaten by Phil Simmons and Paul Nixon in 1996. In 1913 his one first-class innings of the season, in the match between the Army and the Royal Navy, produced a score of 113 which would remain his highest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gustavus Fowke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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