Captain Esmé Chinnery (28 March 1886 – 18 January 1915) was an English soldier and aviator. He played one first-class cricket match for Surrey in 1906.[1] He was killed in an aircraft accident during World War I.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Esme Fairfax Chinnery |
| Born | 28 March 1886 Cobham, Surrey |
| Died | 18 January 1915 (aged 28) Issy, Paris, France |
Source: Cricinfo, 12 March 2017 | |
Education and private life
editAfter school, Chinnery went up to Brasenose College in the University of Oxford. Whilst at Oxford he became a Freemason in the Apollo University Lodge, a Masonic lodge for students and former students of the university.[3]: 37 [4] He played cricket at university, and whilst still an undergraduate he was selected to play in the first team for Surrey County Cricket Club.
Military career
editChinnery was commissioned as a Coldstream Guards officer in 1910 and was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1913. He obtained his aviators certificate at Brooklands Aerodrome on 30 April 1912, flying a Deperdussin Monoplane.[5]
Death
editChinnery was flying as a passenger in a Voisin biplane when the aircraft broke up and both he and the pilot fell to earth, Chinnery died and the French aviator Laporte died later in hospital. Following his death a memorial service was held at the Embassy Church in Paris and his body was repatriated to England for a military funeral, and burial in his family's plot at St. Matthew Church at Hatchford in Surrey.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Esmé Chinnery". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Esme, Chinnery Fairfax". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Jordan, Christopher, ed. (2015). WWI Remembered - Memories of and by Club Members (First ed.). London: Oxford and Cambridge Club.
- ^ "WWI Remembered - Memories of and by Club Members" (PDF). London: Oxford and Cambridge Club. 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate No. 210
- ^ "page 8". Surrey Advertiser. 30 January 1915.