Percy Walter Vasey played first-class

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 cricket

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 in one match for Somerset

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 in the 1913 season. In the 1900s, he had played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire

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. He was born at Highbury

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, London

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 and died at Upton Hellions

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, Crediton

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, Devon

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Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School

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, Vasey became a schoolmaster at King's School, Bruton

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. Unusually to modern eyes, he was a successful member of the school hockey and cricket teams and a reproduction in 2008 of the 1908 edition of The Dolphin, the King's Bruton school magazine, shows a fair-haired mustachioed man as a member of both the unbeaten football team and as a gown-wearing teacher in the school photograph. Vasey returned to King's Bruton as a master after the First World War and was a housemaster.

As a cricketer, Vasey was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm slow bowler, though he did not bowl in either Minor Counties or first-class cricket. He played twice for Hertfordshire in 1906, making 31 in the innings victory over Oxfordshire

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. In minor cricket in 1911, he scored 282 for the Old Brutonians team against Sidmouth, sharing a second wicket partnership of 396 with Harold Hippisley

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, who made 150. His one first-class match came in 1913, and he made 10 and 3 in the match against Yorkshire

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 at Bath, in which Hippisley also played. As late as 1931 he was playing for Old Brutonians in club matches.

Vasey served in the First World War with the Dorset Regiment

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; he was transferred from active service to the Ministry of National Service in 1917 with the rank of Captain.