Maj. Archibald Alexander Gordon, CBE MVO

Major Archibald Alexander Gordon CBE, MVO, Order of Leopold, Legion of Honour (1867 – 12 August 1949)

Scottish soldier who served as attaché to the Military Household of King Albert I of Belgium during World War I, with the title of Belgian King's Messenger.

• Born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland in 1867, the second son of Dr William Eagleston Gordon and Emily Maryann Dick.
• Educated at Stanley House School, Bridge of Allan; Edinburgh Collegiate School and the University of Edinburgh.
• 1892 he married Maude, twin daughter of Major General Edmund Davidson-Smith, formerly Assistant Adjutant General of the Dublin district.

The couple had three children.

• William Hyde Eagleson Gordon (23 August 1893 – 30 September 1915), served as lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Educated at Haileybury and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge] Died of wounds received at the Battle of Loos aged 22. He is buried in the Étaples Military Cemetery, in the Pas de Calais, in grave I.B.17 along with 11,000 comrades.
• Archibald George Ramsay Gordon (23 August 1893 – 26 December 1893), a twin with his elder brother.
• Edmund Robert Adam Gordon (25 March 1896–), served as lieutenant with 1st battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
• Served with the 9th (Highlanders), Royal Scots (Lowland Division) attaining the rank of major.
• 1896 he was appointed a member of the Royal Company of Archers, King's Bodyguard for Scotland. H
• Promoted to captain on 6 August 1900.[
• From 1906 until his retirement in 1920 he served as private secretary to Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington.
• Honorary secretary of several British and international societies for which he held various awards.

During World War I he served as a major on special service and was with the staff of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division at the Siege of Antwerp (1914). From 1914 – 1919 he served as Belgian King's Messenger to King Albert I of Belgium. He was cited in Belgian and French Army Orders of the Day.

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