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Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie memorial plaque - Taken by Helen Steed 30 Aug 2024
Reference WMO/302680
Edit memorial name, location & address- Stone Marble
- First World War (1914-1918)
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TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN / We present our humble thanks for the life and for the death of Charles Hotham Montagu / Doughty-Wylie, dear son of Henry Montagu and Edith Rebecca Doughty of Theberton Hall / Born 23 July 1868. Lieut. Colonel V.C., CB., CM.G., Royal Welch Fusiliers. He served with / distinction in the Black Mountain 1891. Chitral 1895, Egypt (Khartoum and El Gedid) 1898-9, / South Africa 1900, Somaliland 1902-4. He served also in Crete and in China; was three / times severely wounded and was many times mentioned in despatches. While Military Consul / in Asia Minor in 1909 his devoted courage saved hundreds of Christian lives during the / massacres at Adana. Consul and twice Charge d'affaires in Abyssinia. Director of the / Red Cross in Turkey 1912. President of the International Commission for delimiting the / Southern Frontier of Albania 1913, General Staff Officer 1915. While on the Head / Quarters Staff in Gallipoli he collected the survivors of the landing party on V Beach, / Sedd-el-Bahr, led a desperate assault and thus saved the situation. He fell at the moment / of Victory 26. April 1915 and was buried where he fell on the hill since called by his name. / The Victoria Cross for Valour was awarded in honour of his deed that day. / TO GOD BE THE GLORY / THE LAND THEY LOVED SHALL WEAR THE FADELESS CROWN HER WARRIORS GAVE HER / WHEN WRAPPED IN DEATH'S DARK CLOUD, THEY LAID THEM DOWN DYING TO SAVE HER / YET BEING DEAD THEY DIE NOT, IN THE GRAVE THO THEY BE LYING, / THESE BE THE SOULS TO WHOM HIGH VALOUR GAVE GLORY UNDYING. / This monument is erected by his father and brother. //
Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie V.C., CB., CM.G
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