Fitzroy M A Captain 4th Seaforth Highlanders

CAPTAIN M. A. FITZROY

4TH (ROSS HIGHLAND) BATTALION SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

(ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS, THE DUKE OF ALBANY’S), T.F.

MICHAEL ALGERNON FITZROY was the second son of Captain the Hon. E. A. FitzRoy, M.P., late Ist Life Guards, of Fox Hill, West Haddon, Northamptonshire. He entered the School in 1909, and left in 1913 for Oriel College, Oxford.

At the outbreak of the War he was at Rheims, and on returning to England he joined the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders and obtained a Commission as Second Lieutenant, September, 1914.

In November, 1914, he went to the Front with his Regiment and took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, in which the Seaforth Highlanders distinguished themselves. On this occasion he was slightly wounded in the shoulder, but was able to carry on. He was promoted Captain on March 11th, and was killed on April 16th, 1915, near Neuve Chapelle, while working at an advanced listening post. He was improving this post to ensure the safety of the men who occupied it, as it was exposed to enfilade and cross fire. Age 19.

Many letters received from Officers and men alike testify, not only to his popularity with all ranks, but to his ability as a leader, and power as a disciplinarian, of which his rapid promotion at so early an age furnishes an additional proof, while his high character had made a marked impression upon those who had come into contact with him during the year he had spent at Oxford.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

Seaforth Highlanders Officers Of The 4th Btn

Source : The Sword Of The North Highland Memories Of The Great War-Dugald MacEchern

Trevena F W Pte 931 5th Seaforth Highlanders

TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving s. of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer’s Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; b. London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk’s Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; unm.

The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: “We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Tennant C G 2nd Lt 4th Seaforth Highlanders

TENNANT, CHARLES GRANT, 2nd Lieut., 4th Batt. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of James Tennant, of Fairlie, Ayrshire, and formerly of Newcastle- on-Tyne, J.P., by his wife, Henrietta Grant, dau. of Alexander Andrew Fergusson; b. Lowfell, co. Durham, 23 July, 1882; educ Charterhouse, Godalming, where he was a senior scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner; and on finishing his education, became a Director of the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co., Ltd., and of Alexander Fergusson & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Lead Manufacturers. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; unm.

His Commanding Officer wrote: “After less than four months soldiering his name was sent to the War Office for promotion to Capt.; that fact shows what a born soldier he was. On every occasion that we were under fire he was always the same, cool and collected. He declined promotion, as he wished to remain with the men with whom he had trained.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1