Templer, Claude Frank Lethbridge

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Cemetery: Loos Memorial

Country: France

Area: Pas De Calais

Rank: Captain

Force: Army

Official Number:

Unit: 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment.

Country of Service: British

Details: Mentioned in Despatches. 4th June 1918. Age 22. Son of Col. Henry Templer O.B.E. (late Indian Cavalry) and Mrs. Henry Templer of 16 Avenue Charles Floquet Champ de Mars Paris. Capt. Templer was taken prisoner on 22nd Dec. 1914 near Givenchy while reconnoitring an enemy position. He subsequently made 13 attempts at escape being successful in 1917 when he received the honour of a private audience of H.M. The King. He returned to the front in 1918 and was killed on returning from a successful raid on the enemy's trenches. His heroism so impressed the late F. M. Sir Henry Wilson that he ordered the publication of an official pamphlet entitled "Behind the German Lines". Panel 60 to 64.

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Loos Memorial - Templer, Claude Frank Lethbridge

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