Rank: Captain
Regiment: 9th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd Battalion attached 1st Battalion.
Died: 26th June 1915
Age: 29 years old
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Captain Annesley Charles Edward St George Gore, 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Gore, 2nd Battalion the West Riding Regiment, and Edith Eleanor Gore of 30 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.
Baptised on 16 Nov 1886 in Christ Church, Rawalpindi, Bengal, India (now Punjab, Pakistan). Educated at Aravon School, Bray and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 24 Jan 1906. He served for a year with the Royal Irish Regiment in Rawalpindi, before being posted to the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry on 22 Mar 1907. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 Apr 1908 and appointed to the 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles becoming Quartermaster of his battalion in 1913.
At the start of WW1 he volunteered for active service in France with the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Captain in Jan 1915. He was killed by a German piquet in the early morning of 26 Jun 1915 while conducting a reconnaissance outside the trenches near Neuve-Chapelle.
He was buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.
He is also commemorated on the Cheltenham College WW1 Memorial in the Cheltenham College Chapel, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89093), on the 9th Gurkha Rifles WW1 brass memorial plaque in the Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/263544/) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
(The above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member Peter H. ID 47423563)
Regiment: 9th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd Battalion attached 1st Battalion.
Died: 26th June 1915
Age: 29 years old
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Captain Annesley Charles Edward St George Gore, 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Gore, 2nd Battalion the West Riding Regiment, and Edith Eleanor Gore of 30 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.
Baptised on 16 Nov 1886 in Christ Church, Rawalpindi, Bengal, India (now Punjab, Pakistan). Educated at Aravon School, Bray and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 24 Jan 1906. He served for a year with the Royal Irish Regiment in Rawalpindi, before being posted to the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry on 22 Mar 1907. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 Apr 1908 and appointed to the 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles becoming Quartermaster of his battalion in 1913.
At the start of WW1 he volunteered for active service in France with the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Captain in Jan 1915. He was killed by a German piquet in the early morning of 26 Jun 1915 while conducting a reconnaissance outside the trenches near Neuve-Chapelle.
He was buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.
He is also commemorated on the Cheltenham College WW1 Memorial in the Cheltenham College Chapel, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89093), on the 9th Gurkha Rifles WW1 brass memorial plaque in the Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/263544/) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
(The above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member Peter H. ID 47423563)
Rank: Captain
Regiment: 9th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd Battalion attached 1st Battalion.
Died: 26th June 1915
Age: 29 years old
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Captain Annesley Charles Edward St George Gore, 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Gore, 2nd Battalion the West Riding Regiment, and Edith Eleanor Gore of 30 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.
Baptised on 16 Nov 1886 in Christ Church, Rawalpindi, Bengal, India (now Punjab, Pakistan). Educated at Aravon School, Bray and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 24 Jan 1906. He served for a year with the Royal Irish Regiment in Rawalpindi, before being posted to the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry on 22 Mar 1907. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 Apr 1908 and appointed to the 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles becoming Quartermaster of his battalion in 1913.
At the start of WW1 he volunteered for active service in France with the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Captain in Jan 1915. He was killed by a German piquet in the early morning of 26 Jun 1915 while conducting a reconnaissance outside the trenches near Neuve-Chapelle.
He was buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.
He is also commemorated on the Cheltenham College WW1 Memorial in the Cheltenham College Chapel, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89093), on the 9th Gurkha Rifles WW1 brass memorial plaque in the Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/263544/) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
(The above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member Peter H. ID 47423563)
Regiment: 9th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd Battalion attached 1st Battalion.
Died: 26th June 1915
Age: 29 years old
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Captain Annesley Charles Edward St George Gore, 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Gore, 2nd Battalion the West Riding Regiment, and Edith Eleanor Gore of 30 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.
Baptised on 16 Nov 1886 in Christ Church, Rawalpindi, Bengal, India (now Punjab, Pakistan). Educated at Aravon School, Bray and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 24 Jan 1906. He served for a year with the Royal Irish Regiment in Rawalpindi, before being posted to the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry on 22 Mar 1907. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 Apr 1908 and appointed to the 2nd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles becoming Quartermaster of his battalion in 1913.
At the start of WW1 he volunteered for active service in France with the 1st Battalion and was promoted to Captain in Jan 1915. He was killed by a German piquet in the early morning of 26 Jun 1915 while conducting a reconnaissance outside the trenches near Neuve-Chapelle.
He was buried in Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.
He is also commemorated on the Cheltenham College WW1 Memorial in the Cheltenham College Chapel, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89093), on the 9th Gurkha Rifles WW1 brass memorial plaque in the Gurkha Museum, Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/263544/) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
(The above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member Peter H. ID 47423563)
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