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Remembered Today:

Major Morland John Greig, 1st Royal North Devon Hussars


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GREIG, MORLAND JOHN

Initials: M J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Major

Regiment/Service: Royal North Devon Hussars

Unit Text: 1st

Age: 50

Date of Death: 17/10/1915

Additional information: Son of John Peter MacMorland Greig and Annie Lydia Greig; husband of Kate Greig, of Edgcott, Exford, Somerset.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. I. 16.

Cemetery: HILL 10 CEMETERY

Above is from the CWGC.

R. W Walker's book 'To What End Did They Die' gives the additional; Killed in Action

His regiment was part of the 1/2nd South Western Mounted Brigade, who served as infantry at Gallipoli

and landed at Suvla on 9th October 1915

At the time of Greig's death they were attached to the 11th Division

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