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
18951896Norfolk
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

  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. 1 2 "First-Class Matches played by Robert Mornement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  8. 1 2 "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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