High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Horace Cyril Kearsey DSO, OBE (17 December 1877 – 8 October 1967) was a career highly decorated British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. He was also an English cricketer, but his military career limited his cricketing appearances. The son of Francis Kearsey, he was born at Burstow Hall, Surrey. He was educated at Rottingdean School and Clifton College, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.