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Captain Ernest Geoffrey Carrington LE SUEUR
1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 July 1917.
Commemorated Panel 33,YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Barrie Bertram (<bhbertram@tiscali.co.uk>) who provided the photo above
has provided the following information on Captain Le Sueur, who was an Old
Boy of Queen Victoria College, Jersey (Channel Islands);-
"Ernest Geoffrey Carrington Le Sueur, younger son of Arthur Le Sueur,
of Jersey, was born 21st January, 1891. Entering College at the early age
of eight, he remained for eleven years, passing 26th into Sandhurst in 1910.
He was a Prefect, Colour-Sergeant of the OTC, and in the Cricket and Football
XI's and Shooting VIII for three years. Many will remember a brilliant innings
he played against Guernsey in his last term. In the same year he equalled
CG Ames's school record for the Hurdles (17 2/5 seconds.). He was trained
in the Sandhurst Company at Woolwich, and on passing out was gazetted to the
Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards), and joined the 2nd Battalion at Blackdown
Camp. In the following year he went out to India, to the 1st Battalion at
Sialcote.
Promoted Lieutenant in September 1914, he was given temporary rank as Captain
a year later, and promoted Captain on New Year's Day 1917.
In October 1916 he was invalided home from India on a year's sick leave, owing
to eye trouble. Consulting a specialist in London, he was assured that there
was nothing wrong with his eyes, and at once reported for duty and joined
the Reserve Battalion. On 1st June, 1917, he went to the front, and eight
weeks later was killed while leading his company in a successful raid on the
enemy trenches.
He married, on 5th May, 1917, Dorothy, only daughter of Major OJ Keene, CIE,
VD, whose two sons were at College."
The following additional information is given in M L Ferrar's "Officers
of the Green Howards 1688 - 1931";-
"Joined 2nd Battalion in France in June 1917. Killed in action on Observatory
Ridge, Sanctuary Wood, Ypres, 26 July 1917, when leading his company on a
raid of the enemy's trenches."
Dr Simon Fielding (<simonharveyfielding@yahoo.co.uk>) has provided the photo below, which is from a group photo of officers attending the School of Musketry at Pachmarhi, India in May 1915. The photo is usefully labelled with surnames and units, and one officer is 'Le Sueur Yorks'.
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