Macarthur-Onslow A W Captain 16th Lancers
CAPTAIN A. W. MACARTHUR-ONSLOW
16TH (THE QUEEN’S) LANCERS
ARTHUR WILLIAM MACARTHUR-ONSLOW was the fourth son of Captain Alexander Arthur Walton Onslow, R.N., Camden Park, New South Wales.
He entered the School in 1892, and was in the XV in 1895. He went to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1896, and gained a Third Class in the Law School in 1899.
He was gazetted to the 16th Lancers in 1900, and became Captain in 1904. He served through the South African War, and was slightly wounded. He received the Queen’s Medal with three Clasps, and the King’s Medal with two Clasps. He was appointed Instruction Officer at Cambridge in connection with the Territorial Army scheme, in 1910, and was lent to the New Zealand Government 1911-14, serving as Brigade Major and Instruc-tional Officer of Mounted Troops.
He was killed by a shell in the trenches, near Ypres, on November 5th, 1914. Age 36. He was mentioned in Despatches of January 14th, 1915.
General Hubert Gough, c.s., wrote:-
“During the time he was out here, he had done very well, and commanded his Squadron so well that Vaughan (now commanding the 3rd Brigade) has especially mentioned him for the way he handled it in the attack on Warneton.”
He married, in 1911, Christabel, elder daughter of Colonel R. J. Beech, of Brandon Hall, Coventry.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1