About Alexander Brewer
Lived 1906 – 1984 (aged 77). Alexander Brewer was a cricketer and military personnel.
Alexander Newton Brewer (10 September 1906 — 18 January 1984) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Brewer was born at Rochdale in September 1906. He made his debut in first-class cricket whilst in British India for the Europeans against the Hindus at Bombay in the 1939–40 Bombay Pentangular. Brewer received an emergency commission in the British Indian Army during the Second World War, being appointed as a second lieutenant in June 1941. Following the war, he made a second appearance in first-class cricket for S. A. Shete's XI against A. A. Jasdenwala's XI at Bombay in November 1946. Brewer died at Blackpool in January 1984.
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English cricketer and soldier
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Alexander Brewer was born on 10 September 1906.
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Alexander Brewer died on 10 January 1984.
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Alexander Brewer was a cricketer and military personnel.
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