Reginald Bryan

{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Reginald Bryan

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Reginald Charles Peter Bryan

| birth_date = 29 January 1916

| birth_place = Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|5|9|1916|1|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hampshire, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Unknown

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1936/37

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 52

| bat avg1 = 26.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 39

| deliveries1 = 120

| wickets1 = 6

| bowl avg1 = 9.00

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 6/54

| catches/stumpings1 = 4/–

| date = 29 October

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/reginald-bryan-27078 Cricinfo

}}

Reginald Charles Peter Bryan {{postnominal|MBE}} (29 January 1916 — 9 May 1993) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Bryan was born in January 1916 at Lyndhurst, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College, before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He graduated from there into the Royal Artillery (RA) as a second lieutenant.{{London Gazette|issue=34251|date=31 January 1936|page=670}} Whilst serving with the RA in British India, Bryan made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the 1936–37 Madras Presidency Match.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13076/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Reginald Bryan|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=29 October 2023|url-access=subscription}} Opening the batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 13 runs in the Europeans first innings by A. G. Ram Singh, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 39 runs by Gopalaswami Parthasarathi. With the ball, he took a five wicket haul in the Indians second innings, with figures of 6 for 54 from 20 overs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16073.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1936/37|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=29 October 2023|url-access=subscription}} In the RA, he was promoted to lieutenant in January 1939,{{London Gazette|issue=34594|date=31 January 1939|page=680}} and served with the RA in the first sixteen months of the Second World War, before being placed on the half-pay list on account of ill-health in December 1940.{{London Gazette|issue=35008|date=3 December 1940|page=6917|supp=y}} On account of his ill-health, he was transferred to the Inter-Services Topographic Department. For his efforts with that organisation during the war, he was made an MBE in the 1946 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37412|date=28 December 1945|page=289|supp=y}} Bryan retired from active service in December 1945, on account of his ill-health.{{London Gazette|issue=37444|date=22 January 1946|page=661|supp=y}} He died in Hampshire in May 1993.