Name
Kellow Chesney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/04/1919
57
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 17 Nov 1861 and baptised on 12 Jan 1862 in Calcutta, India son of George Tomkyns and Annie Louisa Chesney and he later lived in 12 Victoria Place, Budleigh Salterton. Educated at Haileybury College 1875. He married Vera Banna Moule in 1911 in St Georges, Hanover Square, London and lived in Whimple Wood, Whimple, Devon. He had one son.
Mentioned in despatches (1890).
Wartime Service
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army, 18th Lancers on 22 Jan 1881, Lieutenant 1 Jul 1881, Captain 22 Jan 1992, Major 22 Jan 1901 and Lieutenant Colonel on 22 Jan 1907. Served in Burma and in India and then retired. Rejoined as Major in Royal North Devon Yeomanry on 5 Oct 1914. He entered France on 3 Jan 1917. He died from wounds in Devon after the Armistice.
Additional Information
Not listed in CWGC.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
