Edmund Bury
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Edmund 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.
Bury was killed in action during the First World War,[2] serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.[3]
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- ↑ Bury, Edmond William, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Retrieved 28 September 2008
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