Talbot H R Lt 3rd Dragoon Guards

Talbot H R Lt 3rd Dragoon Guards

Source : The Illustrated London News 26th Dec 1914

TALBOT, HUMFREY RICHARD, Lieut., 3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards, yst. s. of Gustavus Talbot, of Marchmont House, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, by his wife, Susan, 2nd dau. of Robert Elwes, of Congham House, Norfolk, J.P., D.L., and grandson of Rev. the Hon. George Chetwynd-Talbot [bro. of Henry, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury]; b. Ceylon, 11 Sept. 1889; educ. Wellington College and Frieburg, Germany; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the King’s Liverpool Regt., then in India, 11 Dec. 1909; promoted Lieut., 16 Sept. 1912; transferred to 3rd Dragoon Guards, 26 Feb. 1913; left for France, 30 Oct 1914, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 13 Nov. following. Buried in cemetery at Ypres ; unm. He was a keen sportsman and was Master of Hounds at Lahore, 1912-13.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

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