Edmond William Bury (4 November 1884 – 5 December 1915) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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.

Edmund Bury

Bury was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War, serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.

Edmund Bury

See also

List of Olympians killed in World War I

References

External links

Edmund Bury at databaseOlympics.com

1884 births

1915 deaths

Racquets players

Olympic racquets players for Great Britain

Racquets players at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain

King's Royal Rifle Corps officers

British military personnel killed in World War I

British Army personnel of World War I

Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics

20th-century British people

Burials in Hauts-de-France

Sportspeople from Kensington

Sportspeople from London

Military personnel from London

Edmund Bury