Robert Clements Gore
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Brigadier-General Robert Clements Gore CB CMG (February 1867 – 13 April 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First World War.
Military career[edit]
Clements Gore was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1886.[1] He was killed in action in Belgium in 1918, while commanding the 101st Brigade. His remains were buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.[2]
His only child, Adrian Clements Gore, also achieved the rank of brigadier in the British Army and served with distinction in the Second World War.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "No. 25554". The London Gazette. 29 January 1886. p. 444.
- ^ Davies & Maddocks 2014, pp. 65–66.
References[edit]
- Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (2014) [1995]. Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-78346-237-7.
External links[edit]
- "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Portraits of Robert Clements Gore at the National Portrait Gallery, London