Gilbert Burrell Spencer Follett (DSO, MVO)

Name

Gilbert Burrell Spencer Follett (DSO, MVO)

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

27/09/1918
40

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Brigadier General
General Staff
Cdg. 3rd Guards Brigade

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards


Distinguished Service Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Four times Mentioned in Despatches, Croix de Guerre (France).

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

BEAUMETZ CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, BEAUMETZ-LES-CAMBRAI
F. 24.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the Royston memorials

Pre War

Son of John Skirrow Follett and Blanche Katharine Kenneth Follett; husband of Lady Mildred Follett (now Lady Mildred Fitzgerald, of Warren House, Stanmore, Middx.). Native of London.


In October 1914 he was reported that until lately he had bee residing with his wife at Heath Cottage, Baldock Road, Royston

Acknowledgments

Jonty Wild