William Drysdale DSO (4 November 1876 – 29 September 1916) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
[1] After leaving Loretto, he decided on a career in the British Army and attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
[1] Drysdale served in the First World War, where he was wounded in action and earned the Distinguished Service Cross during the First Battle of Ypres for showing “an unsurpassed example of fearlessness and courage, refusing to quit his brigade when wounded”.
[8] He was made a brevet lieutenant colonel in June 1916,[9] while the following month he was again wounded in action during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge when storming the village of Bazentinle-Petit.
[1] After recovering from his wounds, he returned to his battalion September, but was killed on the 29th of the same month by a German sniper when looking over a trench near Gueudecourt.