Cyril Rattigan

Cyril Stanley Rattigan (5 August 1884 – 13 November 1916) was an English first-class cricketer, civil servant and British Army officer.

The son of the judge and politician Sir William Henry Rattigan, he was born at Camberwell in August 1884.

[3] Rattigan was appointed an honorary attaché in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service at Tangier in 1909,[1] where he accompanied Sir Reginald Lister on his mission to Fez.

[8] He served on the Western Front with D Company 7th Royal Fusiliers and was killed by a sniper on 13 November 1916, while attempting to retrieve an injured comrade in no man's land near the French village of Beaumont-Hamel.

[2] His brother was Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan, the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court.