Lt. Col. Wiltshire Regiment, commanding 6th (Royal Wilts Yeomanry) battalion. Killed in action 14 September 1918. Aged 45. Born 17 February 1873, baptised 27 March 1873 at St James, Piccadilly, Middlesex. Son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath. Entered France 24 July 1916. His will states that The Honourable (commonly called Lord) Alexander George Thynne of Norton Hall, Northampton D.S.O. died 14th Sept 1918 in France probate London 7 February 1919 - £331,310. 12s. 7d. In the 1891 census he is Census 1891 living in Berkeley Sq. London with his parents John and Frances and siblings, Thomas 18, Catherine 15, Beatrice 13, Alice 17, Alex 8. In the 1901 Census during the Boer War he is with 2nd Company (Wiltshire), 1st Battalion,Imperial Yeomanry; he was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with clasps for Wittenbergen, Cape Colony, Transvaal. In the 1911 census he is seen visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton; he is 38, single and a Member of Parliament. Buried in Commemorated Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. Row L. Grave 13

Extract from THE V.C. AND D.S.O. BOOK VOL. III page 354:

THYNNE, LORD A. G. (D.S.O. L.G. 1.1.17) ; b. 1873 ; s. of the 4th Marquess of Bath and brother of the 5th Marquess ; educ. Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; ent. R. Wilts. Yeomanry about 1898 ; Lt.-Colonel ; served with 1st Batt. I.Y. in S. Africa, and on the Staff, 1900-2 ; Despatches twice ; Queen's Medal, 4 clasps; King's Medal, 2 clasps; was Secretary to the Lt.-Governor, Orange River Colony, 1902-5; served with Somaliland Field Force, 1903-4, as Reuter's Special Correspondent (Medal and clasp), and on the outbreak of the Europ. War he went to the front with the Wilts. Yeomanry, in which he was a Major; in 1916 he was made Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a battalion of the Wilts. Rgt., and was mentioned in Despatches in Jan. 1917, and again in Dec. of the same year. He was killed in action on 14.9.18.

Extract from the Derby Daily Telegraph Wednesday 18 September 1918:

M.P. KILLED IN ACTION.

"News reached Longleat, the Wiltshire seat of the Marquis of Bath, of the death at the front of Lord Alexander Thynne, who was lieut.-colonel in the Wiltshire Regiment. He was 45 years of age. and was senior Unionist member for Bath, which ho hail represented since January, 1910. Flags were half-mast in Bath Tuesday."

Lance Corporal Z/2900, 11th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Killed in action 18 September 1916. Born Thorpe Malsor, Northants, enlisted London, resident Notting Hill, Middlesex. In the 1891 Census his mother is already widowed and living in Norton in the School House, she is a dressmaker. In the 1901 Census the two brothers named on Norton Memorial as Oscar and Cyril, are seen to be listed on the war memorial by their middle names, living in Norton with their widowed mother Theresa who came from Old Bradwell, Bucks. Oscar was born 1885 and was an architect/draughtsman; Cyril born 1887 was a drapers assistant, they were born in Northampton. They were her only children. In the 1911 Census Oscar is living with his mother in Norton Hall, where she is housekeeper. Cyril is living in Holloway, London as a woollen wharehouseman. No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier & Face 16 B & 16 C.

From his British Army WW1 Service record 1914-1920 (much is fire/water damaged so only the intelligible parts have been transcribed):

At the time he attested, 11 September 1914 at Winchester, he stated he was born in Thorpe Malsor. near Kettering, Northants, he was 28 years 5 months old and a worker in a warehouse. He was originally declared missing and then accepted as having died on or since 18 September 1916. He had been appointed a Lance Corporal 4 August 1916. He had been posted on 15 September 1914 and then again on the 21 September 1914. He was posted to the 5th Battalion on 26 April 1916 and then to the 11th Battalion (BEF) 28 June 1916. He had married Mary Magdalene Perrey (a spinster) at St Peter's Parish Church, Regent Square, London on 25 April 1916. (Civil Registration Pancras, London April to June Quarter 1916 - Volume 1B Page 131). he was 5 feet 5 inches, weight 126 lbs *(approx.), had a 35 inch girth. pale complexion, blue eyes and dark brown hair; he was Church of England. His wife was living at 14 Colville Road, Notting Hill, London previously at 8 Milliman Street, Guildford, Street, London W.C.1. . When he died he had no effects and the pension his wife recieved was 13s 9d per week. His wife remarried becoming mrs Bell, resident 1 Camden Town Gardens, Shepherd's Bush. He was entitled to the British War & Victory Medals.