Lieutenant Cecil Glendower Percy Gilliat

Regiment: 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 13/10/1914
Age at death: 29
Cemetery: Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
Plot: II. D. 39.
Information: Lieutenant Cecil Glendower Percy Gilliat, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was mortally wounded on October 13th near the Belgian frontier, and died at Hasebrouke the following day. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gilliat, of Arch Hall, Co. Meath. He was gazetted to the first Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment from the Militia in November, 1906, and served with that Regiment for about five years in India. Lieut. Gilliat comes of a fighting family on his mother's side, being a nephew of the late Major Singleton, of Aclare House, Meath, and of the late Admiral Singleton, C.B., and of Colonel F. C. Singleton, Bombay Native Infantry, who took part in the march to Kandahar.