Batting style Right-handed Name Peter Courtenay 1934 Somerset | Relations Brother, Geof Role Batsman | |
Full name Peter Jeofry Searle Courtenay Born 11 March 1914 ( 1914-03-11 ) Weymouth, Dorset, England Died 7 April 1959(1959-04-07) (aged 45)
Broadstone, Dorset, England | ||
Peter Jeofry Searle Courtenay (11 March 1914 – 7 April 1959) played first-class cricket for Somerset in two matches in the 1934 season. He was born at Weymouth in Dorset and died at Broadstone, also in Dorset. His younger brother Geofry also played for Somerset.
Educated at Marlborough College, Courtenay played as a lower-order right-handed batsman in two matches inside a week for Somerset, but was not successful, failing to reach double figures in any of his four first-class innings.
In the Second World War, he is recorded in the London Gazette as being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO).
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