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Captain Charles Almeric John Cholmondeley
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Captain Charles Almeric John Cholmondeley Veteran

Birth
Greater London, England
Death
28 Oct 1914 (aged 34)
Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
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Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Add to Map
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN, Captain, 2nd Battalion Border Regiment, yr. son of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd son of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd daughter of Lieutenant-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd son of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. Of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; b. London, 5 March, 1880; educated Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regiment from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 4 Jan. 1902, and Captain 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Captain Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unmarried.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN, Captain, 2nd Battalion Border Regiment, yr. son of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd son of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd daughter of Lieutenant-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd son of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. Of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; b. London, 5 March, 1880; educated Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regiment from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 4 Jan. 1902, and Captain 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Captain Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unmarried.

Gravesite Details


Note from GN: 2nd Bn. Border Regiment. 28th October 1914. Age 34. Son of the late Lord and Lady Henry V. Cholmondeley. Panel35.



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