Lieutenant-Colonel Leigh Arbuthnot Alexander (4 July 1898 – 28 April 1943) was a career soldier and battalion commander. He also played first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 in three matches in the 1920s. He was born at Umzinto, Natal

Colony of Natal

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its...

, South Africa

South Africa

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, and he was killed in action in Burma.

Alexander was the son of Major William Alexander and Ethel Rubina Arbuthnot and brother of Gilbert Alexander

Gilbert Alexander

Gilbert William Arbuthnot Alexander. Born Umzinto 7 September, 1895. Died 10 April, 1957, West Finchley, Middlesex, England...

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He commanded the 3rd Bn, 2nd Ghurka Rifles, and took part in the 1st Chindit expedition, a deep penetration raid behind Japanese lines, with the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade

77th Indian Infantry Brigade

The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade was a infantry formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in India June 1942. The brigade was assigned to the Chindits and organised into eight columns for operations behind enemy lines in Burma...

, when he died during the operation. His is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery

Taukkyan War Cemetery

The Taukkyan War Cemetery is a memorial to Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle in Burma during the Second World War....

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• Teams: Europeans (India) (Main FC: 1922/23-1926/27)
• Lists of matches and more detailed statistics
• First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1922/23-1926/27)
• M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct
• Overall 3 6 1 79 20 15.80 0 0 1
• First-Class Career Bowling (1922/23-1926/27)
• Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 10wM SRate Econ
• Overall 126 3 65 3 2-14 21.66 0 0 42.00 3.09

External links

• Family tree