Wednesday 8 December 2010

Capt Denys Keppel Garnier, 2nd Bn, Gloucs Regt

Captain Denys Keppel Garnier of the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds on the 7th December 1916. He was 26 years old, the son of Caroline Henrietta Garnier of Chawton Conage, Alton, Hamshire, and the late Russell Montagu Garnier. He is buried in Struma Military Cemetery in Greece.

Captain Garnier was gazetted captain in the supplement to the London Gazette dated 18th October 1915. His medal index card notes that he arrived overseas in December 1914

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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