Captain the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill

Regiment: 2nd Life Guards
Panel reference: Panel 3.
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/11/1914
Age at death: 38
Cemetery: Ypres (menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Captain the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill M.P., 2nd Life Guards, who was killed in action on November 6th, was the elder son of Lord O'Neill, 2nd Baron, and entered the Army in 1897, obtaining his Captaincy five years later. He served in the South African War, 1899-1900, and was present at the relief of Kimberley, and in the operations at Paardeberg and Dreitfontein. He also saw service south of the Orange River and at Colesberg. He received the Queen's Medal with three clasps. In January, 1910, he was elected unopposed Unionist Member for the Mid-Antrim division, and continued to represent that constituency until the time of his death. In 1902 he married Lady Annabel Crewe-Milnes, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Crewe.