Major Lord CHARLES GEORGE FRANCIS MERCER-NAIRNE
Regiment & Unit/Ship
1st (Royal) Dragoons
Date of Death
Died 30 October 1914
Age 40 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Staff, 6th Cavalry Brigade
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Member of the Royal Victorian Order
- Additional Info South African Medal (5 Clasps), Legion of Honour (France), Order of Military Merit (Spain), Order of the Crown (Prussia), Order of the Iron Crown Class II (Austria). Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V when Prince of Wales, 1909-10 and Equerry to His Majesty, 1910-1914. Sometime A.D.C. to Field Marshal Earl Roberts. Son of Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne and of Maud Evelyn, Marchioness of Lansdowne, of Bowood, Calne, Wilts; husband of Lady Violet Mary Astor (formerly Mercer-Nairne).
- Personal Inscription "NOT IN VAIN NOT UNHONOURED NOT FORGOTTEN THEY GAVE UP THEIR LIVES"
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