Conan Doyles family

[Simon R]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lost his son (Capt. Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle), his brother Innes, his two brothers in law and two nephews during the war.

Does anyone have any references to Innes that I should follow up?

[eltoro1960]

His son Kingsley Doyle died of pneumonia or of wounds depending what version you believe in 1918, I don't know if he was a serving soldier. this caused Conan Doyle to become heavily in spiritualism.

Personally I go for the pnuemonia.

As for the rest I believe this is the chaps concerned

One can gain some idea of the horror of World War I by the deaths of Conan Doyle’s relatives: Malcolm Leckie, brother-in-law; Alec Forbes and Oscar Hornung, nephews; Major Oldham, brother-in-law; Kingsley Conan Doyle, son.

Who I think are

Name: LECKIE, MALCOLM

Initials: M

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Captain

Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps

Secondary Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers

Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn.

Age: 34

Date of Death: 28/08/1914

Name: HORNUNG, ARTHUR OSCAR

Initials: A O

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment

Unit Text: 3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 06/07/1915

Awards: DSO

Additional information: Son of James Blyth Leckie and Selina Leckie, of Monkstown, Crowborough, Sussex

Name: FORBES, ALEC

Initials: A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Captain

Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 28

Date of Death: 03/09/1916

Additional information: Son of William Guthrie Forbes and Louisa Ross Forbes, of Springfield, Stokesley, Yorks.

Name: OLDHAM

Initials: L W S

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Major

Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers

Unit Text: 63rd Coy.

Age: 45

Date of Death: 28/07/1915

Additional information: Son of Mrs. Oldham, of The Lodge, Bealings, Suffolk, and the late Surgeon Maj. C. F. Oldham; husband of Caroline Oldham (nee Doyle), of The Chalet, Kingston Rd., Lewes. Served on the North-West Frontier of India (Chitral 1895).