Edward Charles Lentaigne
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Lentaigne DSO (16 June 1884 – 28 July 1962)[1] was a British Indian Army officer of the 4th Gurkha Rifles.[2]
He married Cecilia Mary Bunbury. His daughter was the medical artist Mollie Lentaigne and his son was second lieutenant John Wilfred O'Neill Lentaigne MC of the Rifle Brigade who died in 1942 at El Alamein during the Second World War.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "Lentaigne" in Burke's Irish Family Records, Burke's Peerage, p. 717
- ^ Who's-Who-India - 1927. Calcutta: Tyson & Co. p. 146.
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- 1884 births
- 1962 deaths
- Gurkhas
- British Indian Army officers
- Indian Army personnel of World War I
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- Lentaigne family
- Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers
- Indian Army personnel of World War II
- British military personnel stubs