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Capt Thomas Charles Reginald “Tommy” Agar-Robartes

Birth: 22 May 1880
Lanhydrock, Cornwall Unitary Authority, Cornwall, England
Death: 30 Sep 1915 (aged 35)
Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Burial: Lapugnoy Military Cemetery

Lapugnoy, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Show Map GPS-Latitude: 50.4412041, Longitude: -4.6981192
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Captain and Member of Parliament. Eldest son of Thomas Charles, 6th Viscount Clifden, and Mary, Viscountess Clifden, of Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Member of Parliament for St. Austell and Mid-Cornwall since 1908. In 1914 he was a volunteer in the Devon Yeomanry. Desperate to get to the front he joined the Royal Bucks Hussars, who to his horror were kept stationed in England. Then he joined the Coldstream Guards as an officer and was subsequently posted to France. He died 1915 in France (Loos battle), commanding one company of the Coldstream Guards. Tommy lived and entertained his Liberal colleagues at Lanhydrock House in Cornwall, now owned by the National Trust. His bedroom is open to the public and displays a fine dressing case that returned from Loos in 1915.∼Coldstream Guards
MP for St Austell
Lost his life after rescuing a wounded comrade under heavy fire for which gallant exploit he was recommended for the Victoria Cross