Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Bethune Town Cemetery | ||
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.137 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 8A GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | Distinguished Service Order Croix de Guerre (France) | ||
Member of Parliament for Bath.
Family :
Son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath. Undergraduate at Oxford (1894). Served as Member of Parliament for Bath.Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 6/Wiltshire |
6th (Service) Battalion Formed at Devizes in September 1914 as part of K2 and attached as Army Troops to 19th (Western) Division. Moved to Salisbury Plain. D ecember 1914 : moved to billets in Basingstoke and joined 58th Brigade in same Division. Moved to Perham Down in March. July 1915 : landed in France. 20 September 1917 : amalgamated with the Wiltshire Yeomanry, becoming the 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Bn. 13 May 1918 : reduced to cadre strength. Surplus troops went to 2nd Bn and 30th Division. 16 June 1918 : moved to Boulogne, transferred to 42nd Brigade in 14th (Light) Division and returned to England. 18 June 1918 : at Brookwood, reconstituted by absorbing the 9th Bn, the Dorsetshire regiment. 4 July 1918 : landed at Boulogne. |
| Action : The Battles of the Hindenburg Line and associated actions |
12 September - 12 October 1918. As the momentum of the British advance continued it was clear that the Hindenburg Line defences offered the greatest threat to further advances. It was highly likely that the magnificently engineered defence system would re-establish the status quo of static trench warfare. However a series of magnificent actions at Havrincourt and Epehy paved the way for dramatic crossings of the Canal du Nord and the St Quentin Canal by early October. Both canals had been integrated into the Hindenburg Line system and their capture effectively broke the defensive capability of the system. Soon afterwards the British were attacking at Cambrai (again) and then by mid October were pursuing the Germans to the River Selle.
Detail :
Born Feb 17, 1873, and is son of Marquess of Bath. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxon From 1895-8 he travelled extensively in the Balkan Peninsula, Albania, Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Montenegro; took part in a shooting expedition in the East Coast Protectorate and Uganda in 1899, and from that year he represented the Corp. of London on the LCC until 1900 when he served in South Africa with IY and on the Staff (QSA and three clasps KSA and two clasps). He acted as secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of the ORC from 1902-5, and accompanied the Somaliland Field Force as Reuter's correspondent in 1903-4 (medal and clasp). Lord Alexander Thynne contested the Frome Div. of Somerset in the Unionist interest in 1896.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Apollo University No. 357 E.C. | Oxfordshire |
| Joined : | Royal Somerset No. 973 E.C. | Somerset |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
13th February 1894 | 24th April 1894 | 29th May 1894 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley