Major George Thomas Cavendish Paget

The Times - January 30, 1939

Major G. T. C. Paget

ACTIVE SERVICE ON MANY FRONTS

Major George Thomas Cavendish Paget, who was taken ill while yachting some months ago, died on Saturday at Gardnor House, Hampstead, at the age of 85. He came of a famous military family, being the grandson of the first Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded Sir John Moore's cavalry in the Peninsula and Wellington's at Waterloo. Even so he did not enter the British Army as a Regular officer, and he saw much of his active service as a volunteer with the Turks.
The third son of General Lord Alfred Paget - whose mother was the second wife of the first marquess - he was born on May 24, 1853, and went to Wellington College. From his youth he was inclined for travel and adventure, and in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 he was with the Ottoman forces, being on the staff of the commander of the Turkish rear-guard during Suleiman Pasha's retreat through Roumelia. He also served in Bulgaria during the Rhodope insurrection. In 1879, being then in South Africa, he fought in the Zulu War as a volunteer, having a command first with the Native Contingent and then with the Frontier Light Horse. At the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 he was in northern Albania and offered his services to the Turks, but the local Vali had to refer his request to Constantinople, and further delay was caused by the tedious land journey made necessary by the Greek blockade of the coast. It took him three weeks hard travelling to reach the Turkish headquarters at Louros, in Epirus, and by that time hostilities were practically over.
It is not surprising that he should have taken part in the South African War. He served with the 19th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (Paget's Horse) as second-in-command during part of 1900-01 in the temporary rank of major. The Italian campaign in Tripoli in 1912 found him on the side of the Turks again, this time as a staff officer at the advanced post of Suani Beni Adham, south of the town of Tripoli. At the outbreak of the Great War Major Paget, being then in his sixty-second year, did not find it easy to get employment, but in 1915-16 he was attached, again with the temporary rank of major, to the British Adriatic Mission, an appropriate appointment considering his experience of the Near East.

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