Guy Dury

Guy Alexander Ingram Dury MC (4 December 1895 – 10 August 1976) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.

[7] During the Battle of Albert in August 1918 he led his company in an attack that cleared the German trenches and captured a village.

[10] In February 1918 he was one of just twenty guests at the wedding of ballerina Phyllis Bedells to fellow Grenadiers officer Ian MacBean.

[11] Following the war, he was selected to play for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's cricket team in a first-class match against Cambridge University at Eastbourne in 1919.

[19] Dury served as the first commandant of a prisoner of war camp near Penrith, Cumbria, that held the German survivors of the sinking of the Bismarck.

"[21] He exceeded the age to be recalled in August 1948, was removed from the reserve list of officers, and was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel.