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1 September 1914 : 2nd Lt George Edward Cecil
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Born on 9 September 1895 off Hanover Square, London, George Cecil was the son of Lord and Lady Edward Cecil (daughter of Admiral Frederick Maxse) and the grandson of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (three times Prime Minister). At the 1901 Census George (age 5) was at home with his mother (age 29) and their seven servants: butler, nurse, cook, ki...
9 October 1914 : Lieutenant Colonel Aymer Edward Maxwell
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Born on 26 October 1877, Aymer Maxwell was the son of the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Maxwell and Mary Fletcher-Campbell. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He entered the Grenadier guards in September 1897 and served in the South African War. Later, Aymer became a JP, DL and County Councillor for Wigtownshire and...
3 February 1915: Capt Oriel William Erskine Bannerman
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Oriel was born in Bombay, India on 13 December 1877. He was the second son of the General William Bannerman CB 104th Wellesley’s Rifles and of Louisa Bannerman (née Goddard). He was educated at Cheltenham College and Sandhurst. He joined the Indian Army 27 July 1898 and was promoted to Lieutenant 27 October 1900 and Captain on 27 July 1907. Fr...
5 February 1917 : 2nd Lieutenant John Stevenson
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John Stevenson was born in Ahmednagar, Deccan, India on 19 April 1897 and was the son of Surgeon General Henry Wickham Stevenson of Lorn House, Castletown, Isle of Man and Frances Clara (née Skrine). He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. John was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, unattached List for the Indian...
1 March 1915 : Lt Walter Drummond Vyvyan
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He was born in Bath, 20 March 1887. His parents were Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan and Mary (née Foster). Walter was educated at Clifton College, Bedford Grammar School and RMC Sandhurst from where he was gazetted, in May 1907, to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Initially joining the 1st Battalion at Bordon, he was sent to the 2nd Battalio...
3 March 1915 : Lieut. Wickham Leathes Harvey
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Wickham Leathes Harvey was born in Twickenham 8 Jan 1888, the son of Arthur and mother Emily (née Stanger-Leathes and from New South Wales, Australia) of Hoon-Hay, the Drive, Belmont Surrey. At the 1901 Census, age 13, Wickham lived at home in Bromley with his parents, three siblings, two aunts and three domestic servants. He went to school at...
12 March 1915 : Major (Lt. Col) David Coley Young
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Born 5 December 1869, Bombay (Mumbai), David was the only son of the later Colonel David Butler Young of the Bombay Staff Corp and Mary Young (née Cronyn) from Ireland. He was educated at Sedbergh School where he competed in and won the three mile and ten mile runs. Passing into the RMC, Sandhurst in 1888 and joining the Durham Light Infantry...
22 June 1916 : 2nd Lieut. Trevor Allington Crosland
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Youngest son of Thomas (a woollen cloth manufacturer) and Charlotte (née Sykes) Age 4 at the 1901 Census Trevor was living at Boulby Grange, Huddersfield with his parents, older brother by 16 years, nurse, housemaid and cook. Trevor was educated at Harrow School, and at the time of the 1911 Census he was unwell and in the School Sanatorium, an...
Sir John Edward Fowler – the Last Repatriation from The Western Front in 1915?
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By April 1915 the exhumation of bodies from the Western Front and their repatriation was banned. Historian Richard van Emden identifies the last ‘official’ case of repatriation of a fallen British soldier to be that of Lieutenant William Gladstone, the grandson of former Prime Minister William Gladstone. This took place in April 1915, nine da...
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
(Yale University Press 2021) £25.00, 533 pages, ISBN 978–0–300–25073–2 This is a weighty book in every sense. It is lengthy, not surprisingly, as it deals with a complex and important matter, but more significantly it deals with serious concepts which are all too rarely discussed. Andrew Lambert has, in many ways, been leading up to this volume...