Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington
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Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington (born January 26, 1899 , † August 24, 1919 in Beresnik , northwestern Russia ) was a British nobleman and soldier.
He was the second son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March (from 1928 8th Duke of Richmond ), from his first marriage to Hilda Madeline Brassey. Since his eldest brother Charles Henry had died as an infant in 1895, he was the apparent marriage of his father and from 1903 he carried the courtesy title of Lord Settrington .
He entered the Irish Guards Regiment on October 27, 1916 with the rank of Second Lieutenant . He took part in World War I and was promoted to lieutenant on July 22, 1917 . During the Fourth Battle of Flanders he was missing on April 13, 1918 near Hazebrouck after three days of fighting with heavy enemy artillery fire. As it turned out, he fell into German captivity, in which he remained until the armistice. In December 1918 he returned to England. He then served in the 45th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers .
In the Russian Civil War, the Entente intervened in 1918 in favor of the White Army and landed at Arkhangelsk and were reinforced shortly afterwards by Polar Bear Expedition . Gordon-Lennox volunteered and from 1919 took part in the fighting there against the Red Army . On the morning of August 11, when he was part of the rearguard and secured the crossing of the swampy Sheika River over a makeshift bridge, he came under enemy machine gun and rifle fire, was hit in the chest and fell into the river. Australian corporal, Arthur Sullivan , immediately jumped into the river and dragged Settrington and three other soldiers out of the swamp. Sullivan was later awarded the Victoria Cross for this act . Lord Settrington died of his wounds on August 24, 1919 at the age of 20 in a Bereznik hospital. He was buried in the Arkhangelsk Union Cemetery .
Since he remained unmarried and childless, his younger brother Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox finally inherited his father's title of nobility as the 9th Duke of Richmond in 1935 .
Literature and web links
- Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 3, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 3337.
- Lieutenant Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington on thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Victoria Cross: Corporal AP Sullivan, 45 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Australian War Memorial
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| SURNAME | Gordon-Lennox, Charles, Lord Settrington |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, Lord Settrington |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and soldier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1919 |
| Place of death | Beresnik |