Lt Hon W R Wyndham and the 1st Life Guards

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Reference WMO/175178

Address:

Petworth House

Church Street

Petworth

GU28 0AE

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Other Fabric
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The memorial comprises the regimental standard and a plaque which commemorates the placing of the Sovereign’s Standard of the Life Guards in the Chapel at Petworth House in 1955, and also honours members of the Wyndham family who served with them. These include the Hon Reginald Wyndham who was killed at the first Battle of Ypres on 6 November 1914, and Colonels Edward and Humphrey Wyndham who also fought in the war. The stone is black with carved lettering picked out in white.Sovereign's Standard of the Life Guards – Regimental arms embroidered with silk and metal thread on a red silk damask background, with list of battle honours embroidered beneath. Fringe and passmenterie in metal thread. Wyndham Park, Grantham (WMO 174177), was endowed by his mother in Reginald's memory. Reginald’s elder brother, Charles Wyndham, 3rd Lord Leconfield, also served with the 1st Life Guards. He gave the summit of Scafell Pike to the National Trust in 1920 as a memorial to the men of the Lake District who fell in the war. (WMO ref 152224) On a visit in October 2020 the regimental standard was not in place as shown in the photographs of 2014/
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[standard hung on flagpole] DETTINGEN. PENINSULA. WATERLOO. TEL.EL.KEBIR. EGYPT. 1882 / RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY. PAARDEBERG. SOUTH AFRICA. 1899-1900. / MONS. LE CATEAU. MARNE. 1914. AISNE 1914. MESSINES. 1914. / YPRES. 1914 ’15 ’17. SOMME 1916. ARRAS. 1917’ 18. / PASSCHENDALE. FRANCE AND FLANDERS. 1914-18; [plaque on wall next to the standard] This Sovereign’s Standard of the Life-Guards was placed here / with the permission of Queen Elizabeth II. 24 July 1955 / by Colonel the Honourable Edward Wyndham D.S.O. / & Colonel the Honourable Humphrey Wyndham M.C. / some time Commanding Officers of the Regiment. / Also in the Life-Guards served Henry second Lord / Leconfield, his sons Charles third Lord Leconfield & the / Honourable Reginald Wyndham, who was killed / at the first Battle of Ypres, & Humphrey’s son Michael.

Reginald Wyndham (died 6 November 1914, reached rank of Lieut) Edward Wyndham (served First World War, survived) Humphrey Wyndham (served First World War, survived) Henry Wyndham (1830-1901, reached rank of Capt) Michael Wyndham (1929-2013, reached rank of Capt) Charles Wyndham (1872-1952, reached rank of Lieut)

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