Detail victim

Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Oamaru
• Land New Zealand
• Family 11th Earl of Seafield. Chief of the Clan Grant. Son of Francis William Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield, and Anne Trevor Corry Evans
• Education Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Profession Earl of Seafield
• Extra info Husband of Mary Elizabeth Nina, Countess of Seafield, of Cullen House, Banffshire; one daughter

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 5th Bn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• Attached or transferred from 3rd (reserve) - Bn. - Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• Other data related to military career Served in the Bedfordshire Militia and in the Special Reserve of that Regiment; Captain in Lochiel's Bn. (5th Cam.Highlanders) at the outbreak of the war; was with the reserves at Loos; took part in het Hohenzollern Redoubt charge and helped to reorganise the Bn. after the battle.

Death

• Wounded While making his rounds in some trenches, as CO; a bullet passed through a sergeant's arm and striked him in the temple
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Died at the age of 39
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 4

Media

• 
• 
• 
• 

 

Print these data

Back to search results