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Description: | c1935.
Sepia print showing Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne standing with his grandson, Douglas Wilder Trench-Gascoigne, both in Army Uniform, on the terrace of Lotherton Hall. Colonel Gascoigne had a long and distinguished career in the army serving in the Nile Expedition with the Royal Horse Guard (Blues) and the Boer War with the Yorkshire Hussars, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was awarded the D.S.O., the O. St. J. and held the office of High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1923. He also gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in both the Royal Horse Guard (Blues) and the Yorkshire Hussars. He died aged 85 on 2nd June 1937. His grandson, Douglas Wilder Trench-Gascoigne was born in 1917. He rose to the rank of Captain in the service of the Coldstream Guards but was killed in action in August 1944 at the age of 26. Lotherton Hall is visible in the background. From the collection of Mrs. Janet Clarke. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Lotherton Hall Gascoigne | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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