Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant L. C. V. Bathurst, Imperial Yeomanry - a famous cricketer who played for Middlesex and Norfolk and who toured America with Lord Hawke’s team in 1894

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (4280 Serjt., 62nd Coy. Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., I.Y.) good very fine (2) £400-500

Laurence Charles Villebois Bathurst served in the 62nd (Middlesex) Company 14th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and later received a commission into the 30th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry.

Bathurst is listed in The Wisden Book of Cricketer’s Lives. He was known as a clever left-handed bowler, slow to medium with a varied spin. He met with success for five seasons in the Radley XI and finished as captain. Gained an Oxford Blue in 1893 and celebrated his first match for Middlesex in 1894 by taking 12 wickets for 63. From 1896 he played for Norfolk, the county of his birth, but was not able to devote much time to county cricket due to scholastic duties. In 1894 Bathurst toured America with Lord Hawke’s team - being their best bowler - taking 30 wickets and also doing well with the bat - with an average of 36. Bathurst died on 22 February 1939, aged 67 years. With copied roll extracts and extract from Wisdens.