Background
He was born at Milverton, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and died at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
He was born at Milverton, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and died at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
He was a dashing left-handed middle-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler for Leamington Cricket Club, and appeared in three Warwickshire matches in the middle of the 1920 season, scoring 40 in his first first-class innings. Curle went to Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia, to work and in 1923 made a single appearance for the Rhodesia cricket team against Transvaal, scoring 34 and 8. He did not play first-class cricket after that, although he appeared for Leamington in club cricket in 1928.