Great War Lives Lost

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August 26, 2017

Sons and a daughter of Dukes lost in the Great War

Roderick Algernon Antony de Stacpoole

  • Robert Andrew and Roderick Algernon Antony de Stacpoole two sons of the 4th Duke de Stacpoole
  • Arthur John Hamilton son and Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton daughter of the 2nd Duke of Abercorn
  • Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (Lord Settrington) son of the 8th Duke of Richmond
  • William Henry Alfred FitzRoy (Viscount Ipswich) son of the 8th Duke of Grafton
  • Charles Gordon Lennox son of the 7th Duke of Richmond
  • Robert William Orlando Manners son of the 7th Duke of Rutland
  • Desmond Fitzgerald son of the 5th Duke of Leinster
  • Hugh William Grosvenor son of the 1st Duke of Westminster
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August 26, 2017

Monday 27 August 1917 We Lost 1,002

James Duncan Robertson

British forces attack enemy positions east and southeast of Langemarck and advance their line on a front of over 2,000 yards astride the St Julien-Poelcapelle Road.

Brigadier General Malcolm Peake CMG, Commanding Royal Artillery is killed in action at age 52.  While on a reconnaissance on Hill 70 Loos he and his staff officer Major Derrick le Poer Trench are killed by an enemy shell.

Today’s losses include:

  • A Brigadier General
  • The son of a member of the clergy
  • A member of the clergy
  • A Military Chaplain
  • Multiple families that will lose two sons in the Great War
  • A member of the Penarth Rugby Club

Today’s highlighted casualties include:

  • Captain John Leslie Derrick (Yorkshire Regiment) is killed at age 27. He is the son of the Reverend John George Derrick.
  • Lieutenant Gerald C N Cooke (Alberta Regiment) is accidentally killed in England. His brother was killed last year.
  • Lieutenant Richard Cuthbert Lodge (Royal Scots) is killed at age 23. He is the son of Professor ‘Sir’ Richard Lodge.
  • Lieutenant the Reverend James Duncan Robertson MC (Gordon Highlanders) dies of wounds at age 31.
  • Second Lieutenant Cecil Francis Hamilton-Cox (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment) is killed at age 24. His brother will be killed in less than two months.
  • Chaplain the Reverend Michael Patrick Gordon DD (attached XV Corps) dies of wounds received yesterday at age 34.
  • Lance Corporal John James Page (Warwickshire Regiment) is killed in action at age 25. His brother will die in November 1918.
  • Private Ernest Alfred Frazer (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) is killed by a sniper at age 21. His older brother will be killed in September 1918.
  • Private William Jacob Parkyn (Warwickshire Regiment) is killed at age 22. His brother was wounded and taken prisoner in March 1918 and released in January 1919. He will die as a result of his imprisonment in August 1920.
  • Private James Dockerill (Warwickshire Regiment) is killed at age 20. His brother was killed in September 1916.
  • Private Arthur Ernest Bloxsome (Gloucestershire Regiment) is killed at age 26. His brother died of illness earlier this month on Salonika.
  • Private John Patrick Driscoll (Gloucestershire Regiment) is killed at age 33. His brother was killed in September 1915.
  • Private Frederick Morgan Aubrey (Welsh Regiment) is killed. He is a member of the Penarth Rugby Club.
  • Private Arthur Allsop (Shropshire Light Infantry) is killed. His brother will die on service in March 1919.
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