Rank: Captain
Regiment: Grenadier Guards, Special Reserve attached 1st Battalion
Died: 11th March 1915
Age: 29 years old.
Wyndham Wentworth Knatchbull-Hugessen was a peer of the realm and the 3rd Baron Brabourne.
He was born on the 21st September 1885 at Norton, Kent. He was the second and only surviving son of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne and the Honourable Amy Virginia Beaumont, daughter of the 1st Baron Allendale. They had married on the 2nd November 1880 in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Their first son Richard was born in August 1881 but sadly died in infancy in May 1883. Wyndham had an older sister Margaret and a younger sister Bettine. He was educated at Eton College from January 1899 to April 1900
Wyndham was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards on the 9th September 1908 and joined the 2nd Battalion. He inherited the title of 3rd Baron Brabourne when his father died on the 29th December 1909.
Resigning his commission on the 3rd June 1911 he transferred to the Special Reserve of the Regiment. In the House of Lords that year he was one of the 112 peers who voted against the passing of the Parliament Act 1911.
Wyndham was a keen and well known ornithologist co-writing the book 'The Birds of South America' in 1912.
With the onset of war, Wyndham regained his commission and with the 1st Battalion entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on the 11th November 1914.
He was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on the 11th March 1915. Having no known grave he is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Le Touret Memorial.
Wyndham is also commemorated in the following locations in England:
On the War Memorial in the village of Smeeth, Ashford, Kent.
On a Wall Memorial inside the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Smeeth.
On the Roll of Honour at Eton College.
On the War Memorial in the House of Lords Royal Gallery, Palace of Westminster, London.
As he had never married or had children the title 4th Baron Brabourne passed to his uncle Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen.
Wyndham's British War and Victory Medals were sold at auction for £290 in September 2011.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, Noonans, the Peerage)
(Bio: Woose)
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Grenadier Guards, Special Reserve attached 1st Battalion
Died: 11th March 1915
Age: 29 years old.
Wyndham Wentworth Knatchbull-Hugessen was a peer of the realm and the 3rd Baron Brabourne.
He was born on the 21st September 1885 at Norton, Kent. He was the second and only surviving son of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne and the Honourable Amy Virginia Beaumont, daughter of the 1st Baron Allendale. They had married on the 2nd November 1880 in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Their first son Richard was born in August 1881 but sadly died in infancy in May 1883. Wyndham had an older sister Margaret and a younger sister Bettine. He was educated at Eton College from January 1899 to April 1900
Wyndham was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards on the 9th September 1908 and joined the 2nd Battalion. He inherited the title of 3rd Baron Brabourne when his father died on the 29th December 1909.
Resigning his commission on the 3rd June 1911 he transferred to the Special Reserve of the Regiment. In the House of Lords that year he was one of the 112 peers who voted against the passing of the Parliament Act 1911.
Wyndham was a keen and well known ornithologist co-writing the book 'The Birds of South America' in 1912.
With the onset of war, Wyndham regained his commission and with the 1st Battalion entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on the 11th November 1914.
He was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on the 11th March 1915. Having no known grave he is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Le Touret Memorial.
Wyndham is also commemorated in the following locations in England:
On the War Memorial in the village of Smeeth, Ashford, Kent.
On a Wall Memorial inside the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Smeeth.
On the Roll of Honour at Eton College.
On the War Memorial in the House of Lords Royal Gallery, Palace of Westminster, London.
As he had never married or had children the title 4th Baron Brabourne passed to his uncle Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen.
Wyndham's British War and Victory Medals were sold at auction for £290 in September 2011.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, Noonans, the Peerage)
(Bio: Woose)
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