Talbot E C Captain Indian Army
TALBOT, EDWARD CHARLES, Capt. and tempy. Major, 47th Sikhs, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Major Francis Arthur Bouverie Talbot, of 89, Philbeach Gardens, S. W., late Oxfordshire L.I., by his wife, Alice Mary Beatrice, dau. of Gen. Edward Melville Lawford; b. Biggleswade, co. Bedford, 9 April, 1881; educ. Haileybury College; joined the Herts Militia, 2 April, 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Bed- fordshire Regt., 26 June, 1901, and promoted Lieut., 23 March, 1904; transferred to the Indian Army, 23 April, 1904, and became Capt., 2 April, 1909; served in the South African War, 1900-02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony; operations in Cape Colony, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900, July to Aug. 1901, and Oct. to Nov. 1901; and those in the Orange River Colony, Aug. to Oct. 1901, and Nov. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with his regt. with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Sept. 1914. He was slightly wounded. at Neuve Chapelle in March, but was able to remain on duty, and was made a tempy. Major in command of the regt., which he held till he was wounded at Ypres on 26 April, 1915, and died at Hazebrouck on the 29th, where he was buried. Capt. Talbot was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. While at Haileybury he played in the Football XV. He m. at Weybridge, 30 Sept. 1908, Dorothy Maynard (Eridge, Teignmouth, South Devon), dau. of Sir William Gibbons, K.C.B., and had two children: Patricia Mary, b. 23 Dec. 1909; Iris Nonie, b. 26 Dec. 1913.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1