Ted Witherden
Edwin George Witherden (1 May 1922 – 6 May 2019), known as Ted Witherden, was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club from 1951 to 1955. He later went on to be one of the most successful batsmen to play in the Minor Counties Championship, playing for Norfolk County Cricket Club between 1956 and 1962. In later life he was a successful groundsman and cricket coach in Bishop's Stortford. Early life and war service Witherden was born at Goudhurst in Kent, the son of a policeman. He played for Sandwich Town Cricket Club before the war and had an unsuccessful trial with Kent in 1938 at the age of 16. During World War II Witherden served with the Royal East Kent Regiment (the Buffs), enlisting in 1940 and serving on the home front until 1943. He transferred to the 3rd battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment in Kenya and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, serving in Madagascar and Abyssinia. The regiment was sent to India in 1944 and Witherden saw active service as part of the 22nd (East Africa) Infantry Brigade in the Arakan area during the Burma campaign. He ended the war with the