Full name Sydney Wilford Beadle Name Sydney Beadle | Bowling style Right-arm slow Batting style Right-handed | |
Died 24 July 1937(1937-07-24) (aged 51)Reading Street, Tenterden, Kent, England | ||
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Sydney Wilford Beadle (9 November 1885 – 24 July 1937) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who was a right-arm slow bowler. He attended Rossall School, entering in the third term of 1899 and leaving in the midsummer term of 1900.
Beadle made his first-class debut in the 1911 for a combined Army and Navy side against Oxford and Cambridge Universities
Beadle made his only County Championship appearance in the same season for Hampshire against local rivals Sussex.
Beadle's final first-class match came for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord's in May 1912.
He resigned from the Royal Navy in 1912 and briefly went to live in British Columbia, Canada, before returning to join Hawke Battalion of the Royal Navy Division, which was composed of reserves of the Royal Navy who were not required at sea. This subsequently became the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division of the New Army and participated in the defence of the Belgian city of Antwerp in late 1914. He was interned in the Netherlands in 1914.
After the war he worked in the Stock Exchange while remaining as a lieutenant commander on the Royal Navy emergency list.
Beadle died at Reading Street, Tenterden, Kent on 24 July 1937.