Captain The Rt. Hon. Neil James Archibald Primrose

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Captain Neil James Archibald Primrose, MC (14 December 1882 – 15 November 1917), British Liberal politician and soldier, was the second son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Hannah de Rothschild, and brother of the writer Lady Sybil Grant. He was born at Dalmeny.

Primrose was commissioned into the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars in 1909. Promoted Captain in 1915, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. In November 1917, during World War I, he was killed at Gezer during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign while leading his squadron against Turkish positions on the Abu Shusheh ridge during the Third Battle of Gaza. He is buried in the Ramleh Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Ramla, in Israel. {According to Vladimir Jabotinsky's "The Story of the Jewish Legion", Primrose came very close to joining the Jewish Legion but did not because of a miscommunication}.

PRIMROSE, The Rt. Hon. NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD

Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 15/11/1917
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars 1st/1st
Awards: M C
Grave Reference: D. 49.
Cemetery: RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Second son of 5th Earl of Rosebery (the former Prime Minister) and Countess of Rosebery; husband of Lady Victoria Primrose (now Lady Victoria Bullock), of Swynford Paddocks, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket. Privy Councillor and Member of Parliament for Wisbech Division, Cambs. since 1910.
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