Henry Bayard Rich

Henry Bayard Rich (14 June 1849 – 17 November 1884)[1] was a British soldier, who played for the Royal Engineers in the 1872 FA Cup Final.

[1] Rich played football for Marlborough College and RMA, Woolwich before joining the Royal Engineers.

[1] He generally played as a forward and was "ranked as one of the best football players of his day" who "strove hard to pass the backs".

[2] In April 1873, he was posted to Hong Kong until December 1875 when he was sent to Perak as part of a force sent to end local resistance following the murder of the British administrator James W.W. Birch in November 1875.

[2] He returned to active service when he was sent to Egypt in September 1882 as part of the Egyptian Expedition to put down a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha, where he was employed with the "A" troop under Sir Garnet Wolseley.

Philip Simons Picot served with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) and was killed at Gallipoli on 11 July 1915.