Major Viscount Crichton

Regiment: Royal Horse Guards
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: No
Information: Major Viscount Crichton M.V.O. D.S.O., Royal Horse Guards, who has been mentioned in Sir John French's despatches, is the eldest son of the Earl of Erne, K.P., and is extra Equerry to King George V., having previously acted as A.D.C. to His Majesty when, as Duke of Cornwall and York, he made his celebrated tour of the Colonies in 1901. He passed from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst into the Royal Horse Guards, and served in the South African campaign, acting as A.D.C. to Major-General Brocklehurst, being mentioned in despatches, and receiving the Queen's Medal with 5 clasps and the D.S.O. In 1903 he married Lady Mary Grosvenor, daughter of the first Duke of Westminster.