Major Eric Tremayne Buller Medical Corps was an English cricketer and decorated British Army officer
Education
Born in Highworth, Wiltshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he represented the school cricket team In May 1915, he was listed in the London Gazette as having attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, passing out to be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry.
Career
In the First World War, Buller served in the initially Devonshire Regiment. In the January 1917 Supplement to the London Gazette, Buller was listed as being promoted to temporary Lieutenant from the rank of 2nd Lieutenant that he held, this time in the Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry. He later served in the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as part of the British Rhine Army occupying the Rhineland.
He eventually retired from the Army at some point prior to the Second World War, holding the rank of Major.
Buller made his only first-class appearance following the war for the Army against the Cambridge University at Fenner"s in 1919. In this match he scored 46 runs in the Army first-innings, before being dismissed by Arthur Gilligan.
In their second-innings he scored an unbeaten 12 runs. With the ball he claimed 11 wicket-less overs.
Buller played for the British Rhine Army, the occupying British force in Rhine Land, in 1922 against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Cologne.
In 1924, he made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Devon against the Surrey Second XI. He represented Devon until 1926, and returned in 1931 to play a single match against Cornwall.