Captain Henry Robert Augustus Adeane
- Batt - 1
- Unit - Coldstream Guards
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 31/7/1882
- Died - 02/11/1914
- Age - 31
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Admiral Edward Stanley Adeane CMG. who was born in 1837 in Babraham, Cambrideshire and his wife Lady Edith Isabella Dalzell who was born in 1844 in Simla, East Indies. She was the second daughter of Harry Burrard, 14th Earl of Carnwath. Husband of Victoria Eugenie. He was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, being gazetted to the Coldstream Guards on the 18th January 1902, promoted Captain in 1910 and retiring on the 17th May 1913. He hunted from Langham House with the Cottesmore hounds from 1910 to 1913. On mobilisation at the declaration of war, he re enlisted on the 5th August 1914, in the 4th Battalion of the Coldstream Guards, and was killed near Ypres, Belgium whilst serving with the 1st Battalion of that Regiment. He married on the 25th September 1909, Victoria Eugenie, born 1882 in London and the eldest daughter of Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge, now Lord Stamfordham, and had a son Michael Edward, born September 30th 1910. In 1911 Henry was serving as a Captain in the Coldstream Guards and residing at the Guards Club, 70, Pall Mall, London.
Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Photograph courtesy of A. Garford 2020
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Place of death - Nr Ypres
- Birth Place - Eaton Place, London
- Unit - Coldstream Guards
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Burial Commemoration - Ypres (Menin Gate) Mem., Belgium
- Born - 28, Eaton Place, London
- Place of Residence - Langham, Rutland, England
- Memorial - BARLEYTHORPE & LANGHAM MEM., RUTLAND