Michael Fitzroy Talbot Baines OBE DL JP (3 September 1898 – 9 March 1990) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Major Edward Baines, he was born at Kasauli in British India, before being educated at Cheltenham College in England.
[3] In the later stages of the war he served at the Ypres Salient, before seeing action during the German spring offensive and at the Battle of Amiens.
[4] Following the Allied victory in November 1918, he was posted to Cologne in 1919 as part of the Army of Occupation, serving in Upper Silesia with the 65th Battery, 8th (Howitzer) Brigade in 1921–1922.
[7][8] By 1929, he was serving as a temporary captain in the Territorial Army (TA),[9][10] with restoration to the active list in March 1932.