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Col. Leslie Davidson.
Scottish cricketer and army officer (1850–1915)
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About Col. Leslie Davidson
Colonel William Leslie Davidson was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer. After being commissioned into the Royal Horse Artillery in 1869, Davidson's military career consisted of service in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War and Second Boer War, and the subcontinent during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. He retired from the military in 1907 with the rank of colonel, but returned to the service at the outbreak for the First World War, after which he commanded a base depot in France. He was the oldest first-class cricketer to be killed in the First World War.
Everything about Col. Leslie Davidson →- Occupation
- military personnel, cricketer, courtier
- Position held
- aide-de-camp, aide-de-camp, Gentleman Usher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1850, January 31, 1850
- Died
- August 3, 1915