Ronald Yeldham
Colonel Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham CBE (18 August 1902 – 14 August 1983) was an Indian-born British Army officer and cricketer.
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| Full name | Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 August 1902 Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 August 1983 (aged 80) Bodmin, Cornwall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1925-1927 | Europeans (India) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1926 | Northern Punjab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1926 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 6 March 1925 Europeans v Muslims | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 5 December 1927 Europeans v Muslims | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career edit
He served in Africa and the Indian Ocean from 1928 to 1945.[1][2] In June 1945, Yeldham was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as temporary Colonel commanding the British troops in Mauritius.[3]
In 1949 Yeldham was a Principal in the Colonial Office, West African Department, and wrote a memorandum (16 March) on Soviet activity in Nigeria. There was MI5 surveillance of Harry Pollitt's contact with Mokwugo Okoye, a Zikist leader (Yeldham, memorandum in December of that year).[4] During the Malayan Emergency, in 1952, he was instrumental in the use of sodium trichloroacetate as a defoliant.[5]
Yeldham then held civil appointments in Kenya, from 1954.[6][7]
Cricketer edit
Yeldham played six first-class cricket matches in British India between 1925 and 1927, including one for the MCC.[8] He later played twice for Egypt against HM Martineau's XI.[9]
References edit
- ^ "Yeldham Ronald Ernest Stephen IWM interview (3960)". Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ^ Cricinfo profile
- ^ London Gazette issue 37119, 14 June 1945, supplement page 2942
- ^ Martin Lynn (2001). Nigeria: Managing political reform 1943-1953. Vol. 1. Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London. pp. 181 and 261. ISBN 978-0-11-290597-4.
- ^ Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon (3 May 2011). Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-230-30038-5.
- ^ Kenya Gazette. 21 December 1954. p. 1322.
- ^ Kenya Gazette. 2 August 1955. p. 2.
- ^ First-class matches played by Ronald Yeldham at CricketArchive
- ^ Other matches played by Ronald Yeldham at CricketArchive