Sir George Stirling of Glorat, Baronet

CAPTAIN SIR GEORGE MURRAY HOME STIRLING OF GLORAT, BARONET

is the son of Sir Charles Stirling of Glorat, and his wife, Anne Caroline Murray. He was born in 1869 and his birth was registered at Marylebone in London, England Marylebone Birth Records

London, 1871

George Murray Home Stirling of Glorat and his sister Blanche are noticed in the home of his maternal grandfather when the English census of 1871 was enumerated 1871 Census of England

Second Boer War

Captain George Murray Home Stirling of Glorat served as Staff Captain, Mounted Infantry Brigade, from 18 Oct. 1900 to 18 Feb. 1902, and was afterwards attached to the Army Service Corps as Officer Commanding Transport, Bloemfontein District, till June, 1902 The VC and DSO - Volume II

WWI

Captain George Murray Home Stirling of Glorat took part in the Battle of Sandfontein. The VC and DSO - Volume II

The Royal Company of Archers

Captain George Murray Home Stirling of Glorat was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the reigning monarch's bodyguard in Scotland. The VC and DSO - Volume II

Biographical Summary

"George Murray Home Stirling, born September 4, 1869; heir of his father. Married November 15, 1904, Mabel Sprot, daughter of Col. Sprot of Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. Educated at Eton and at the Royal Military School at Sandhurst. Joined 2d Essex Regiment (56th Foot and Pompadour) in 1889; captain, 1900; took part in the Tirah Campaign, as transport officer, from 1897 to 1898; participated in the South African War and was wounded at the Battle of Sandfontein.">SOURCE: The Sterling genealogy, comp. and illustrated by Albert Mack Sterling; 1909; Vol. I, page 117