AGLIONBY, ARTHUR HUGH, M.C., Major (Acting), 219th Siege Battery, Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery (T.F.), 4th s. of the Rev. Dr. Francis Keyes Aglionby, Vicar of Newbold Pacey, co. Warwick, by his wife, Amy, dau. of the Right Rev. E. H. Bickersteth, some time Bishop of Exeter; 6. London, 4 Nov. 1885; educ. Hastings: Westminster School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a Second Class in Lit. Hum.; was a Preparatory Schoolmaster at St. Andrew’s, Bournemouth, and subsequently at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; joined the Dorset R.G.A. in 1912; ; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war was promoted Lieut. in Dec. 1914, Capt. in 1917, and Acting Major, May 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1916, and died at Roubais 7 Nov. 1918, of wounds received in action at Moen-on-the-Scheldt. Buried at Monvaux. A brother officer wrote: The story of his extraordinary courage and coolness during the retreat has been told a hundred times in the battery mess.” He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1919], for gallantry in the field, during the Battle of the Scheldt, when his battery: “Fired from the open at 1,000 yards’ range, got on to masses of Germars trying to advance, and completely broke them up, and the attack utterly failed.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5