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Snead-Cox Geoffrey Phillip Joseph
British Second Lieutenant 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers 19 20 october 1914 Son of John Snead-Cox, of Broxwood, Leominster, Herefordshire His brother was also killed : - Snead-Cox Herbert Arhur Midshipman - H.M.S. Indefatigable 31 may 1916 Plymouth Naval Memorial Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Panel 22 |
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Snelgrove Sidney Henry
British Lieutenant 14th Bn. attached to the 7th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps 23 7 december 1891 , Tunbridge Wells 30 july 1915 Younger son of John Sidney Snelgrove, of The Plottage, Forest Row, Sussex, and the late Gertrude Emily Chatteris Educated at Hurstleigh , Tunbridge Wells , at Rugby College and Trinity College , Cambridge * At Hurstleighhe was head of the School and captain of the cricket and the hockey elevens. * At Rugby was in house eleven, and a signaller in the OTC Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Panel 51 and 53 |
Military footsteps
21 november 1914 2 february 1915 16 july 1915 30 july 1915 |
Gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 14th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Promoted Lieutenant Attached to the 7th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps Killed in action whileleading his platoon under heavy shell fire in support of another company, in the counter-attack at Chateau Hooge. Originally buried at Sanctuary Wood Lieutenant Colonel G.A.P. Rennie , DSO , Commanding 7th King's Royal Rifle Corps wrote : ' He was leading his men splendidly at the time.' Letters from other officers and men all speak in the highest terms of his courage,energy and great capability. |