Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers

Regiment: Leicestershire Regiment
Attached: Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Panel reference: Panel 44.
Date published: 22/01/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 08/11/1914
Age at death: 41
Cemetery: Ypres (menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers, late of the Leicestershire Regiment attached to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who was killed in action on the 8th November near Ypres while gallantly leading a bayonet attack, retaking a trench from which the French had retired. Captain Travers was born in 1873, and was a son of Lieut. Colonel Travers, who had served through the Crimean campaign and was a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and came of a Co. Cork family. He was educated at Wellington College and entered the service in 1896, receiving his captaincy in the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1902. He retired in 1907 but rejoined on the outbreak of the war. He served through the South African campaign and was on an armoured train for the last thirteen months of the war, for which he and the other officers received the thanks of Lord Kitchener. He received the Queen's Medal with five clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.
Additional information: D S O, Mentioned in Despatches Son of Lt. Col. Joseph Oates Travers, C.M.G., D.S.O. and Elinor Travers (nee Durand). Served in the Leicestershire Regt., 1896-1907.