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LIEUT. ROBERT DE STACPOOLE,
Connaught Rangers,

fourth son of the Duke de Stacpoole, was born in 1892, at Mount Hazel, county Galway, and in September, 1902, came to Downside, where his three elder brothers were already at school. He left in the autumn of 1909, entered Sandhurst the year following, and was gazetted to the Connaught Rangers in 1911. He went to the front with his regiment in the British Expeditionary Force, taking part in the engagement at Mons on August 23rd, and in all the subsequent fighting until the German stand at the river Aisne. On September 20th he was shot in the head and killed instantly, at Verneuil (Aisne), some 15 miles from Soissons. Sir Gerald Burke (O.G.), who saw him on the evening of the 19th, spoke of him as "in excellent spirits ; extremely popular amongst the men owing to his cheerful disposition, unselfishness and bravery." He was promoted to be Lieutenant a few days only before his death.

Source : Downside In The War 1914-1919