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|death_date = {{death date and age|1948|08|30|1865|09|18|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Doctors Hospital (Manhattan)|Doctor's Hospital]], New York City, New York, US
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|branch = [[British Army|Army]]
|rank = Major
|unit = [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]]
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|awards = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration|VD]]
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|date=5 November 2017 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=6 November 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>[https://www.applebyglobal.com/publication-pdf/site-pdfs/appleby-timeline---april-2016-(2).pdf ''Our History''.] Appleby, 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2017. [https://www.webcitation.org/6uorxKLUQ?url=https://www.applebyglobal.com/publication-pdf/site-pdfs/appleby-timeline---april-2016-(2).pdf Archived here.]</ref>
He served in the [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]] (BVRC), commissioned as a second-lieutenant with seniority from 9 March 1895. In 1900 he was the acting adjutant, with the rank of captain. He was promoted to major on 5 November 1903, on becoming the commanding officer. In 1916 he was awarded the [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29656/page/6745/data.pdf |title=War Office, 5th July 1916|newspaper=The London Gazette|date=7 July 1916|page= 6745}}</ref> During the First World War, the BVRC fulfilled its role within the Bermuda Garrison while also sending a contingent of 88 other ranks under the command of Appleby's cousin, Captain Richard Jennings Tucker, to join the 1st Battalion of the [[Lincolnshire Regiment]] on the Western Front in June 1915. <ref>The Royal Gazette, 26 January 1915: ''B.V.R.C. The Active Service Contingent. Memorandum From His Excellency The Governor. Appeal For Recruits''.</ref><ref>The Royal Gazette, 6 May 1915: ''Two Generations from St. David’s''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49804/pembroke-wesleyan-cemetery/ |title=PEMBROKE WESLEYAN CEMETERY|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref> Appleby remained in command of the BVRC 'til succeeded by Major Richard Jennings Tucker (later lieutenant-colonel) in 1920 (another cousin, Lieutenant-Colonel AT Gosling, ED, was to be commanding officer from 1935 to 1941). The BVRC (renamed the ''Bermuda Rifles'' in 1949) was amalgamated with the [[Bermuda Militia Artillery]] to form the [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]] in 1965, with Lieutenant-Colonel John Brownlow Tucker, another cousin, becoming the first commanding officer).<ref>[http://www.bermudaregiment.bm/about/history Royal Bermuda Regiment: ''History''</ref>
He was appointed to the [[Legislative Council of Bermuda]] in 1928<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/14443/page/580/data.pdf |title=Downing Street, 9th May 1928 |date=15 May 1928 |work=The Edinburgh Gazette |page=580}}</ref> and according to ''The Irish Times'', citing reports in Bermuda's ''[[The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)|The Royal Gazette]]'', spoke against the idea of the introduction of an [[Taxation in Bermuda|income tax in Bermuda]] at a Legislative Council meeting in 1940, siding with "those who look on all income tax as man's last refinement of torture, to be resisted at all costs".<ref name="irish" />
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