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3 rd LORD BRABOURNE<br />

Captain Wyndham Wentworth BRABOURNE. 1 st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. His real<br />

family name was KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN. (3 rd Lord Brabourne). Died Thursday 11 th<br />

March 1915. Resided Mersham. Son of Edward the 2 nd Baron Brabourne of Hoath House,<br />

Smeeth, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Wyndham has no known grave. His name appears on the Le Touret<br />

Memorial, Bethune, France. Panel reference 2.<br />

Wyndham’s family erected a fine private memorial inside the Smeeth parish church. This<br />

attractive memorial can still be seen hanging on the wall adjacent to the church’s own tribute to all<br />

the local men who fell.<br />

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