{"id":3856,"date":"2023-07-13T07:16:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2023-07-13T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:16:28","slug":"bagot-chester-g-j-m-major-2nd-scots-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/bagot-chester-g-j-m-major-2nd-scots-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagot-Chester G J M Major 2nd Scots Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3857\" style=\"width: 694px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3857\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Bagot-Chester-G-J-M-Major-2nd-Scots-Guards.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bagot-Chester G J M Major 2nd Scots Guards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MAJOR JOHN GREVILLE MASSEY BAGOT-CHESTER, Scots Guards, was born in 1868, the eldest son of Colonel Heneage Bagot-Chester, at Henstead Hall, Suffolk. He was educated at Elstree and afterwards went to Brackenbury&#8217;s, the Army coach at Wimbledon, from there entering the 2nd Bat<\/p>\n<p>talion, Scots Guards.<\/p>\n<p>He was a fine athlete and won many running and jumping competitions, and once for a \u00a3100 bet he rode, ran, and walked a mile in under twenty minutes. He was very well-known with the Belvoir and Quorn Foxhounds and hunted from Melton Mowbray for several seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He was all through the South African War and was present at the following engagements: Belmont, Modder River, Graspan, and Magersfontein.<\/p>\n<p>On the Stock Exchange, where he became a member in 1910, he was connected for some years with the firm of Linton Clarke and Co., and later on with Lionel Robinson, Clark and Co.<\/p>\n<p>He was the senior Major in the Brigade of Guards, with over twenty years&#8217; service, when he retired. He rejoined the moment the war broke out.<\/p>\n<p>His death took place in the course of the battle for Cambrai in November 1917, which opened with the famous surprise attack with tanks. He was hit by a shell and is buried near Flesqui\u00e8res. A letter from a brother officer said: &#8220;Poor Bubbles has gone. His loss will be felt throughout the Brigade of Guards, for he was ever a brave, gallant, and very popular officer, and we shall one and all mourn his loss.&#8221; Another officer wrote: &#8220;He was a gallant officer, true friend, and knew no fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAJOR JOHN GREVILLE MASSEY BAGOT-CHESTER, Scots Guards, was born in 1868, the eldest son of Colonel Heneage Bagot-Chester, at Henstead Hall, Suffolk. He was educated at Elstree and afterwards went to Brackenbury&#8217;s, the Army coach at Wimbledon, from there entering the 2nd Bat talion, Scots Guards. He was a fine athlete and won many running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scots-guards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}