Roll of Honour 1914-15 Capt Lord Guernsey Irish Guards

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[Philip Wilson]

Lord Guernsey was born in 1883, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, joined Militia in

1901 and was a 2^nd Lieutenant with Irish Guards in 1902. Served in South Africa

August 1901 to May 1902. ADC to the Governor and C-in' C Gibralter in 1905.

He retired in 1906 and joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a Captain from 1908.

In April 1914 he was a Captain in the Reserve of Officers and rejoined Irish Guards on 12^th August 1914.

Guernsey was killed towards dusk on 14^th September, 1914 at La Cour de Soupir in the attack of the 4^th Guards Brigade during the Battle of the Aisne.

Guernsey was buried next to Captain Hamilton Berners and Captain Lord Arthur Hay also of the 1^st Irish Guards. They were later reburied in Soupir Communal Cemetery, A 3-5.

Guernsey lived at Packington Park, Warwickshire

see pages 390-391 'The Aristocracy in the Great War.' ISBN 0947893 35 0.

For details of Captain Lord Arthur Hay who was killed by a sniper at the same time as Lord Guernsey see pages 502-503 of the above publication.

For further details see Kipling's 'The Irish Guards in the Great War'