Edmund Bury Explained
Edmond William Bury (4 November 1884 – 5 December 1915) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
He won the silver medal in the men's doubles competition together with Cecil Browning. In the men's singles event he did not participate.[2]
Bury was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War,[3] serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.[4]
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- Web site: Edmund Bury . https://web.archive.org/web/20180921074304/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/edmund-bury-1.html . dead . 21 September 2018 . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference.
- Web site: Edmund Bury . Olympedia . 6 April 2021.
- Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference.
- http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/298310 Bury, Edmond William