Mervyn Dobree CAREY

Person Sheet

Name Mervyn Dobree Carey

Birth 8 Jan 1877

Death 1945 Age: 67

Ref Number Hh24

Occupation Lieut.-Colonel

Father Julius Alphonso Carey (1836-1893)

Mother Caroline Carey (1837-1883)

Spouses:

1 Mary Purdon

Birth 30 May 1876

Ref Number Hh24a

Father Edward Sinclair Purdon

Marriage 6 Feb 1904

Children: Mervyn (Died as Infant) (1907-1907)

Peter Sausmarez (1910-) 

Patrick Mervyn (1915-1946)
Notes for Mervyn Dobree Carey

Educated at Elizabeth College 1885-9; College No 2413; also at a private school; Sandhurst 1895-6; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire) Regiment, now the Green Howards 1897; Lieutenant 1898; Captain 1904; Major 1914; Brevet Lieut-Colonel 1919; Lieut-Colonel Commanding 1st Battalion Green Howards 1923; half-pay 1927; retired 1 July 1927. Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry 1909-13. Served in Ireland, Gibralter, India, South Africa, Palestine, Sudan. Vice-President Portslade, Southwick and Fishergate Branch, British Legion 1927-30.

War Service: Great War 1914-18, served in India, mostly on the N.W. frontier and in temporary command of the Green Howards 1916-20.

Medals: Frontier of India 1919; Afghanistan, medal and clasp; mentioned in despatches.

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