404:: he is recorded as having been promoted from second lieutenant to full lieutenant in 1906. There was a further promotion to captain in 1911. Records are then absent until he retires from the army with the rank of major – a title he used for the rest of his life – in 1919 after the end of the First World War. He appears to have spent much of the war as a prisoner of war: he was posted as missing on 24 October 1914 and not repatriated until 18 November 1918.
444:, but then took over the captaincy officially when it became plain that Sharp was not able to resume. The captaincy may have come to him by default as an amateur, but Fowke proved to be worth his place in the team in 1922: he made 977 runs at an average of 23.20, his highest aggregate and average in any season. He did not score any centuries in 1922, but against Derbyshire he made 99 and against
495:, Berry and Shipman as regular opening batsmen, Fowke opened the innings, but later he dropped down the batting order to No 6 or No 7, and sometimes even lower. He missed a few matches in 1926 through a leg strain, but otherwise maintained fitness through to the end of the 1927 season, when he played in 29 first-class matches, more than in any other season, and then retired.
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Leicestershire in the 1922 season, having played, before the start of the season, just nine first-class games, four of them 23 years earlier. Leicestershire needed Fowke because of a problem with the
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487:. His own performances did not equal those of 1922, but nor did they fall much short: he made at least 500 runs in each season and his season average only once dipped below 15 runs per innings. His only century for Leicestershire was an innings of 104 in the match against
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Leicestershire's captain for the next five seasons, overseeing a transition in the team that saw the retirement of older players such as
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611:"UK, Casualties of the Boer War, 1899-1902: G. H. S. Fowke"
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919:"Scorecard: Northamptonshire v Leicestershire"
802:"First-class matches played by Gustavus Fowke"
713:"British Army Medal Rolls WWI: Gustavus Fowke"
1012:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
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549:. www.cricketarchive.com. 17 August 1899
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897:"Scorecard: Leicestershire v Glamorgan"
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760:. www.cricketarchive.com. 29 July 1911
342:between 1899 and 1927. He was born in
1007:British Army personnel of World War I
921:. www.cricketarchive.com. 19 May 1923
832:. Vol. Part II (1923 ed.).
782:. www.cricketarchive.com. 3 June 1913
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977:People from Wansford, Cambridgeshire
1027:People educated at Uppingham School
16:English army officer and cricketer
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940:"Leicestershire Club's Jubilee".
1002:Military personnel from Brighton
577:. 26 October 1900. p. 6547.
525:"Player Profile: Gustavus Fowke"
992:Leicestershire cricket captains
661:. 6 February 1906. p. 872.
780:"Scorecard: Army v Royal Navy"
641:. 2 August 1901. p. 5127.
589:"Imperial Yeomanry Battalions"
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325:Gustavus Henry Spencer Fowke
38:Gustavus Henry Spencer Fowke
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681:. 2 May 1911. p. 3328.
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