Robert Clements Gore
Robert Clements Gore | |
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| Born | 3 February 1867 |
| Died | 13 April 1918 (aged 51) Belgium |
Brigadier-General Robert Clements Gore CB CMG (3 February 1867 – 13 April 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First World War. He was a member of the Anglo-Irish Gore family.
Military career
[edit]Gore was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in January 1886.[1]
He was promoted to major in November 1907[2] and to lieutenant colonel in November 1914.[3]
He was assigned to command the 34th Division's 101st Infantry Brigade and was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general while employed in this role, taking over from Brigadier General Hugh Gregory Fitton.[4] He was killed in action in Belgium in 1918. His remains were buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Gore was born in Clifton, Bristol, to Nathaniel Gore and Louisa Page.[6] He was the grandson of William Gore, MP for Carrick; and great-grandson of William Gore, Bishop of Limerick. His sister Gertrude was married to politician Gilbert McMicking.[7]
In 1899, Gore married Rachel Cecilia Saunderson, daughter of Llewellyn Traherne Bassett Saunderson and Lady Rachel Mary Scott (daughter of John Scott, 3rd Earl of Clonmell). Their only child, Adrian Clements Gore, also achieved the rank of brigadier in the British Army and served with distinction in the Second World War.[7]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ "No. 25554". The London Gazette. 29 January 1886. p. 444.
- ↑ "No. 28090". The London Gazette. 17 December 1907. p. 8778.
- ↑ "No. 29059". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 February 1915. p. 1192.
- ↑ "No. 29488". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 February 1916. p. 2084.
- ↑ Davies & Maddocks 2014, pp. 65–66.
- ↑ 1911 England Census
- 1 2 Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1921. p. 984. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
References
[edit]- Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (2014) [1995]. Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-78346-237-7.
External links
[edit]- "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Portraits of Robert Clements Gore at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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