Chesham, Lord | C C W | | Colonel | Of Latimer House, Chesham, Bucks, and of the Marlborough, Guards', and Turf Clubs, was born in 1850. He was educated at Eton, and entered the Coldstream Guards in 1870, afterwards joining the 10th Hussars in 1873, and the 16th Lancers in 1878, retiring in the following year. He served in South Africa in 1899-1902, as Brig. General on the Staff, in command of a Brigade of Imperial Yeomanry, after wards as Inspector General of Imperial Yeomanry; present at the operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, including the actions at Venterskroon; the operations in the Orange River Colony, and the actions at Lindley and Rhenoster River, and in Cape Colony, north of the Orange River (despatches, QSA with three clasps, KSA with two clasps, and KCB). Lord Chesham is now Hon Colonel of the Royal Bucks Hussars, and since 1901 has been Lord of the Bedchamber to HRH the Prince of Wales. In 1906 he sat as a member of the Committee of the Volunteer Commission. He married, in 1877, Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster.
Source: List of KCB recipients. Various sources | Imperial Yeomanry |
Chesher | | 370 | Driveriver | Died of enteric at Ladysmith. 25 Feb 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 31 line 39 | Royal Engineers |
Chesher | A | 370 | Driver | QSA (5) CC DoL OFS LN Belf; KSA
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | Royal Engineers |
Chesher | A | 370 | Driver | Died from enteric fever at Ladysmith 25 Feb 1900. QSA sent to father 10 Sep 1902.
QSA (1)
TNA ref 159/8 | Royal Engineers, Telegraph Battalion, 1st Division |
Chesher | C | 370 | Driver | Demise: Died of disease - enteric fever 25 Feb 1900
Place: Ladysmith
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Royal Engineers, Telegraph Battalion, 1st Division |
Chesher | E | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
Chesher | E B | 323 | Lance Corporal | Demise: Killed in action 02 Sep 1900
Place: Kameelpoort
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | New South Wales, NSW Citizen's Bushmen |
Chesher | Edward Brown | 333 | Lance Corporal | Source: OZ-Boer database | New South Wales, NSW Citizen's Bushmen |
Chesher | G | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | East Lancashire Regiment |
Chesher | G | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Scots Guards |
Chesher | George | 23 | Private | Source: OZ-Boer database | New South Wales, A squadron NSW Mounted Rifles |
Chesher | George | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Scots Guards |
Chesher | H | | | 1st Battalion
Source: Medal rolls | Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadia |
Chesher | J | | | 3rd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | East Lancashire Regiment |
Cheshier | B H | | | District 1
Source: QSA and KSA rolls | Cape Police |
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