Picture No | 10951897 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Capt. the Hon. Neil Primrose MP |
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Captain the Hon. Neil Primrose (1882-1917), son of Lord Rosebery pictured in uniform and on horseback in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News which reported on his death in 1917. He served as a captain in the Royal Buckingham Hussars during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. He died in November 1917 from wounds received in action at Gezer during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign while leading his squadron against Turkish positions on the Abu Shusheh ridge during the Third Battle of Gaza.
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Source | Unattributed photographs in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 24 November 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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