Inter-County Cricket Match

Monday 30^th August 1915: Owing to Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire not being able to meet this year in Minor County cricket, the representatives of the two counties who are serving with Territorial units at the Front decided the other day that they would make up for it by having a match out there. Hertfordshire were represented by the 1st Hertfordshire Regiment and Bedfordshire by the 1st Field Company of the East Anglian Royal Engineers, the Herts men granting the Engineers the loan of their cricketing material.

“It was quite a novelty” says one of the EAREs, “to have a cricket match only two miles behind the trenches” and the Engineers had the satisfaction of beating neighbours by 14 runs. The Engineers scored 65 and the 1st Herts 51, the principal scorers being Driver J H Joyce 27 and Sapper G W Webb 24 for the EAREs and Private H Peck 20 for the 1st Herts.

Source: Bedfordshire Standard 27th August 1915