Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Officers: Royal Berkshire Regiment Officers, Wiltshire Regiment Officers, Douglas Jardine, Basil Coad

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Royal Berkshire Regiment officers, Wiltshire Regiment officers, Douglas Jardine, Basil Coad, Frank King, Miles Dempsey, John William Dunne, Charles Pearson, Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Harold Forster, Frederick McCracken, William Platt, Stephen Saunders, Edgell Rickword, Thomas Maitland, William Curphey, Ben Brocklehurst, Owen Rutter, Robert Poore, Ronald Poulton-Palmer, Lord Adam Gordon, Dudley Graham Johnson, William Feilding, Edward John Eliot, Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran, John Le Marchant, Robert Jesson, Arthur Raikes, Eric Grant Miles, Lord Algernon Percy, Alexander Buller Turner, Samuel Hulse, George Williams, Felix Ready, George Montagu, Noel Hudson, Herbert Archibald Douglas, Lord Evelyn Stuart, John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde, Lord Alexander Thynne, George Godfrey Massy Wheeler, Alexander Duff, Harold Henderson, Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward, Gerald Gibbs, Frederick Fairfax, Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, Frederick Augustus Wetherall. Excerpt: Douglas Robert Jardine ( 1900 - 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933-34. A right-handed batsman, he played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches, winning nine, losing one and drawing five. Jardine is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics against Donald Bradman and other opposing Australian batsmen. A Bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was pitched short so as to rise towards the body of the opposing batsman on the line of the leg stump, in the hope of creating legside deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders on the leg side. This tactic was considered by many to be intimidatory ...