Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant

Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant

The Honourable Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant (11 June 1890 – 29 October 1914) was a British nobleman and army officer. He was the eldest of two surviving sons of Edward Sholto Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn and Blanche Georgiana FitzRoy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton.[1]

He was first commissioned in 1910 and by the outbreak of World War One in 1914 he was aide-de-camp to Baron Carmichael, governor of Bengal.[2] He was killed in action on 29 October 1914 on the Western Front as a lieutenant in 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards.[3] He was officially reported wounded and missing in November 1914, but on 9 July 1915 the Wolverton Express reported that he had now been unofficially reported killed.[4] He was replaced as heir to the barony by his younger brother Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant.

References

  1. ↑ "Alan George Sholto Douglas-Pennant - WW1 Memorial and Life Story". livesofthefirstworldwar.org.
  2. ↑ "Person Page". thepeerage.com.
  3. ↑ "Casualty". www.cwgc.org.
  4. ↑ "Letters from the First World War - Wicken". www.mkheritage.co.uk.
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