Sydney George Fairbairn MC (13 October 1892 – 19 January 1943) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood,[1] he was born in "Carrick" Potts Point, New South Wales.
[n 1] Fairbairn made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Barbados, during the MCC tour of the West Indies in early 1913.
[6] In that year's English cricket season, Fairbairn made his Minor Counties Championship for Buckinghamshire against Wiltshire.
The skill and speed which he accomplished his task enabled the troops on his flanks to consolidate at dusk in a sound defensive position.