Career
Bateman-Champain was a right-handed batsman. Bateman-Champain played 11 first-class matches for Gloucestershire, with his debut for the county coming in 1888 against Yorkshire and his final first-class match for the county coming against Surrey in 1902. He also represented the Marylebone Cricket Club in a single first-class match in 1902 against Kent.
Bateman-Champain died at Ascot, Berkshire on 7 October 1933.
Educated Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Eldest son of Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain, Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George, Revue Economique and Harriet Sophie Currie.
Bateman-Champain was part of a large cricketing family. He joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1889.
He transferred to the Indian Army and joined the 1 Gorkha Rifles in 1891.
During the Great War he served on the Western Front in France and then was posted to Gallipoli 1914-1915. He was promoted to Brigade Commander and sent first to Mesopotamia followed by North Persia 1917-1920 with 36th Indian Brigade. He gained the rank of Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) in the service of the Indian Army.
He retired in 1921 and became General-Secretary of the British Red Cross Society from then until his death.