BREE, EDWARD RUSSELL STAPYLTON, Lient., 8th (Service) Battn. The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, only s. of the late Rev. Edward Henry Bree, late Rector of Stow St. Mary, by his wife, Charlotte Jane (Britannia House, Hunstanton), dau. of the late Rev. John Russell Jackson, M.A.; and gdson. of the late Right Rev. H. Bree, D.D., Bishop of Barbados; b. Stow St. Mary, co. Lincoln, 27 Feb. 1897; educ. St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in July, 1915; promoted Lieut. 29 Dec. 1916; served with the British Expeditionary Force in the Balkans from Nov. 1917, and was killed in action near Dora Tepe 18 Sept. 1918. on the first day of the British offensive. Buried where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: He was a first-rate officer, always keen to take out patrol, and undertake duties of a dangerous nature. I had the greatest admiration for him, my one difficulty being to restrain him from going too far. We have all lost a cheery companion.” A brother officer also wrote: ” He was leading his men gallantly when he fell, and his
loss is deeply felt by the whole battalion.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5
