De Tuyll B M A Captain 10th Royal Hussars

De Tuyll B M A Captain 10th Royal Hussars

de TUYLL, BARON MAURICE ARTHUR, Capt., 10th Royal Hussars, yr. s. of the late Baron Carlo de Tuyll, Lieut., Royal Gloucester- shire Hussars, by his wife, Louise Emily (now wife of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort), dau. of William Henry Harford, of Oldown, co. Gloucester, D.L.; b. London, 1 Nov. 1888; educ. Pinewood School, Farnborough, Stubbington (being originally intended for the Navy), privately with Mr. W. Trevor, Lathbury, Newport Pagnell, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1914; went to France with regt. Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, Thursday, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was leading his squadron in a counter-attack that morning and fell when crossing road from Ypres to Menin. He was buried in the garden of the Château de Poliitze.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

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