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Lt. · 4 Grenadier Guards

Edward Wyndham Tennant (The Hon.)

† 22/09/1916 · aged 19 · Guillemont Road Cemetery, I.B.18; personal inscription: KILLED IN ACTION IN HIS TWENTIETH YEAR

Personal data

NameTennant (The Hon.)
InitialsE.W.
Christian nameEdward Wyndham
Date and place of birthStockton House, Wiltshire; 01.07.1897
FamilySon of Edward Priaux, 1st Baron Glenconner (MP) and Lady Glenconner, (later Viscountess Grey of Falloden).

Extra information

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Educated at Winchester College
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War poet: "Worple Flit and Other Poems" (September 1916) and "Wheels, an Anthology of Verse" (published posthumously 1917).
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His aunt, Margot Asquith, was the second wife of Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister between 1908 and 1916
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A Memoir was written by his mother entitled 'Edward Wyndham Tennant: A Memoir by his mother with Portraits in Photogravure'.

Military data

RankLt.
Regiment / Unit4 Grenadier Guards
Date of death
Age19
Cemetery / MemorialGuillemont Road Cemetery, I.B.18; personal inscription: KILLED IN ACTION IN HIS TWENTIETH YEAR

Other information

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Signed Visitors' Book on 01.04.1916
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Memorial plaque in Salisbury Cathedral

Media

Sources

Source
VB 1, p.65