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Lieutenant FRANK ALEXANDER DE PASS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse

Date of Death

Died 25 November 1914

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

I. A. 24.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Indian
  • Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Eliot and Beatrice de Pass, of 23, Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, London. Born in London. Inscription on tomb quoted from a sonnet by his Rugby school-fellow, Rupert Brooke. ". . . . . . . Loved. Gone proudly friended.".
  • Personal Inscription SON OF ELIOT AND BEATRICE DE PASS BORN 26TH APRIL 1887 ". . . . . . . LOVED. GONE, PROUDLY FRIENDED".
  • Additional Citation note

    An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29074, dated 16th Feb., 1915, records the following:-"For conspicuous bravery near Festubert on the 24th November, in entering a German sap and destroying a traverse in the face of the enemy's bombs, and for subsequently rescuing, under heavy fire, a wounded man who was lying exposed in the open."

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