Identity
Person No.
21752
Service No.
1624
Last Name
First Name
Marcus Chester
Initials
M C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,311
Killed in action
Location
Country
Locality
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Notes
Husband of Edith Gleave Breckill, (formerly Rogers), of 17, Princes Drive, Sale, Manchester, England. ***Buried in the parish of Clery
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Stories 1
Born in Paddington, Middlesex on the 24th September 1879 he was the youngest of 4 brothers he was sent to Cheltenham Collage in 1894 in the Hazelwell House during his time there he was a member of the Football and rugby XV he left collage in 1897 and joined the RMA in Woolwich and then join the 92nd Battery in Birmingham as a 2nd lieutenant on the 23 December 1898. Later the next year was transferred to the 84th Battery in South Africa in July 1899. It was there that he was promoted to Lieutenant on the 16th February 1901 but was then wounded at his gun in action on the 31st October 1901 as a member of Colonel Bensons Column at the battle of Brakenlaagte and died 5 days later on the 4th November 1901. He is buried at Germiston; Primrose Cemetery Johannesburg and he?s name appears on three monuments in South Africa the main monument at the site to the Regimental monument and the marble cross. mark cunningham
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