Second Lieutenant Harold Charles Des Voeux

Attached: Royal Munster Fusiliers
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 11/06/1915
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey
Plot: A. 18.
Information: Second Lieutenant Harold Charles Des Voeux, aged 19 years, unattached Indian Army, attached to Royal Munster Fusiliers, killed at the Dardanelles on June 11, was the son of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Hamilton Des Voeux, K.C.B., and Lady Des Voeux of Palace Mansions, Kensington. He was educated at Wellington College, Sandhurst, and received his commission from Sandhurst last August.