Sydney George Fairbairn MC was an English cricketer and British Army officer.
11 Facts About Sydney Fairbairn
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The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood, he was born in "Carrick" Potts Point, New South Wales.
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Sydney Fairbairn made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Barbados, during the MCC tour of the West Indies in early 1913.
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In that year's English cricket season, Sydney Fairbairn made his Minor Counties Championship for Buckinghamshire against Wiltshire.
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Sydney Fairbairn made 6 further Minor Counties Championship matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Wiltshire in 1914.
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In 1926 Sydney Fairbairn married Angela Maude, daughter of Onslow Powell Traherne who survived him.
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Sydney Fairbairn joined the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars before the start of the First World War and was later wounded at Gallipoli.
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Sydney Fairbairn joined up again in 1916 this time with the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919.
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Sydney Fairbairn re-joined the Guards in the Second World War and died on active service in London on 19 January 1943.
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Sydney Fairbairn was buried at St Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire.
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Sydney Fairbairn worked his platoon through the village, driving the enemy out of several positions, and capturing their machine guns and eighteen prisoners.