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Historical records matching Sir Alan Frederick James de Rutzen, the Baron de Rutzen of Slebech Hall
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About Sir Alan Frederick James de Rutzen, the Baron de Rutzen of Slebech Hall
DE RUTZEN, Baron ALAN FREDERICK JAMES
- Rank: Lieutenant
- Date of Death: 07/08/1916
- Age: 40
- Regiment/Service: Pembroke Yeomanry 1st/1st Bn. attd. 6th Coy. Imperial Camel Corps Grave
- Reference: E. 53.
- Cemetery: KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
- Additional Information: Son of Sir Albert de Rutzen; husband of Eleanor E. de Rutzen. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/474527/DE%20RUTZEN,%20Ba...
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Alan Frederick James de Rutzen, born 4 July 1876, succeeded to Slebech on the death of his uncle, Baron Rudolph, in 1915. At that time he was serving abroad in the Middle East as a lieutenant in The Pembrokeshire Yeomanry. In July 1916, a detachment under command of Lieutenant Baron de Rutzen left The Pembrokeshire Yeomanry at Wadi Natrum to join the Imperial Camel Corps. The detachment saw immediate action, and on 7 August the Baron was killed at the battle of Kattia, near El Arish, in the Sinai desert.
He married on 28 April 1908, Eleanor Etna Audley Thursby-Pelham, daughter of Captain Pelham Thursby-Pelham of Abermarlais Park, Carmarthenshire, by Emily Florence only daughter of Henry Foley, D.L. After her husband's death she married on 2 December 1918 to Captain George William Fisher Foley-Philipps. She died on 3 December 1945. Baron A. F. J. de Rutzen left an only son,
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Sir Alan Frederick James de Rutzen, the Baron de Rutzen of Slebech Hall's Timeline
| 1876 |
July 4, 1876
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Llandilofawr, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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| 1909 |
March 27, 1909
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Chelsea, London, England
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| 1916 |
August 7, 1916
Age 40
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El Arish, Egypt
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