Edmund Bury

British racquets player

Olympic medal record

Men's Rackets
| 1908 London | Men's doubles

Edmond 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.[2]

Bury was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War,[3] serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.[4]

## See also

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* List of Olympians killed in World War I

## References

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1. ^ "Edmund Bury". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
2. ^ "Edmund Bury". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
3. ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
4. ^ Bury, Edmond William, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 28 September 2008

## External links

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* Edmund Bury at databaseOlympics.com Archived 16 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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* Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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