Robert Mornement

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Robert Mornement
Personal information
Full name
Robert Harry Mornement
Born(1873-08-05)5 August 1873
Roudham, Norfolk, England
Died16 April 1948(1948-04-16) (aged 74)
Chatham, Kent, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1895–1896Norfolk
1906Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 121
Batting average 15.12
100s/50s –/1
Top score 73
Balls bowled 426
Wickets 9
Bowling average 28.77
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 3/62
Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: Cricinfo, 3 March 2010

Surgeon Rear Admiral Robert Harry Mornement OBE (15 August 1873 — 16 April 1948) was an English first-class cricketer and a surgeon in the Royal Navy.

The son of Edward Mornement, he was born in August 1873 at Roudham, Norfolk. Mornement was a medical student at the Middlesex Hospital, graduating in 1896.[1] During his studies, Mornement played minor counties cricket for Norfolk in 1895 and 1896, making two appearances against Hertfordshire at Bishop's Stortford in the Minor Counties Championship.[2] In 1897, he was an assistant medical officer at the Cane Hill Hospital.[3] In December 1899, he joined the Royal Navy Medical Service (RNMS) and was appointed staff surgeon aboard HMS Highflyer,[4] before being appointed staff surgeon at Eastney Barracks in Portsmouth in June 1905.[5] Having scored heavily for the Royal Navy Cricket Club in minor cricket matches,[6] Mornement made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Yorkshire at Sheffield in the 1906 County Championship. He made two further first-class appearances for Hampshire in 1906, against Warwickshire and Somerset.[7] In his three matches for Hampshire, he took six wickets with his right-arm medium pace bowling at an average of 28.50, with best figures of 3 for 62.[8]

Mornement transferred aboard HMS Commonwealth as staff surgeon in May 1907.[9] He later made two further appearances in first-class cricket for the combined Army and Navy cricket team against a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team at Portsmouth in 1910 and Aldershot in 1911.[7] He took three wickets at an average of 29.33 in his two matches,[8] in addition to scoring his only first-class half century, with a score of 73 at Aldershot.[10] Mornement served during the First World War, initially in the Royal Navy as a fleet surgeon, before being attached to the Medical Branch of the British Army as a temporary lieutenant colonel.[11] Toward the end of the war, he was made a Grade A lieutenant colonel in October 1918,[12] and following its conclusion he was made an OBE in the 1919 New Year Honours.[13] After the war, he was attached to the Royal Air Force, where he held the rank of wing commander until October 1919, when he returned to duties with the RNMS.[14] He was reappointed to Eastney Barracks in January 1921,[15] and was made a surgeon captain in December 1923.[16] He was placed on the retired list in August 1928,[17] and was promoted to surgeon rear admiral in April 1929.[18] Mornement died at the Royal Naval Hospital at Chatham on 16 April 1948.[19]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. 1899. p. 211.
  2. ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Robert Mornement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  3. ^ The Journal of Mental Science. Vol. 45. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. 1899. p. 15.
  4. ^ "Royal Navy And Army Medical Services". The BMJ. 2 (2032): 1650–1652. 9 December 1899. JSTOR 20262787. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. ^ The Navy List. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 1906. p. 555.
  6. ^ "Yorkshire v Hampshire". Cricket. London. 14 June 1906. p. 14. Retrieved 14 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Robert Mornement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  8. ^ a b "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Robert Mornement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  9. ^ The Navy List. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 1908. pp. 295–296.
  10. ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Robert Mornement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  11. ^ "No. 30781". The London Gazette. 5 July 1918. p. 7950.
  12. ^ "No. 31147". The London Gazette. 28 January 1919. p. 1376.
  13. ^ "No. 31098". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1918. p. 93.
  14. ^ "No. 31692". The London Gazette. 16 December 1919. p. 15624.
  15. ^ "Naval and Military Appointments". The BMJ. 2 (2032): 19–20. 15 January 1901. PMC 2414386.
  16. ^ "No. 32893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1923. p. 8.
  17. ^ "No. 33413". The London Gazette. 17 July 1928. p. 5514.
  18. ^ "No. 33500". The London Gazette. 31 May 1929. p. 3586.
  19. ^ "Births, Marriages, and Deaths". The BMJ. 1: 816. 24 April 1948. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4555.816. S2CID 220039148. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

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