Brigadier-General Robert Clements Gore CB CMG (February 1867 – 13 April 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First World War.
Military career edit
Clements Gore was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1886.[1] He was killed in action in Belgium in 1918, while commanding the 101st Brigade. His remains were buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.[2]
His only child, Adrian Clements Gore, also achieved the rank of brigadier in the British Army and served with distinction in the Second World War.
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ "No. 25554". The London Gazette. 29 January 1886. p. 444.
- ^ Davies & Maddocks 2014, pp. 65–66.
References edit
- Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (2014) [1995]. Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-78346-237-7.
External links edit
- "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Portraits of Robert Clements Gore at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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