Name
Nicolas Melvill Gepp
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/08/1915
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
11th Bn., attached 1st Bn. Essex Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY
Sp. Mem. C. 346.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Not on the Sandon memorials
Pre War
Born on 27 May 1871 in Sandon, Hertfordshire son of Rev. Nicholas Parker and Alice Philippa (Melvill) Gepp.
Educated at Haileybury College 1884-89. Obtained a commission in Dec 1900 in the West India Regiment. Served in the Aro Expedition to Nigeria in 1901. After serving in Nigeria with the West African Frontier Force, he relinquished his commission in 1909 to become Assistant Resident in Nigeria.
Wartime Service
He rejoined the Army as Captain in May 1915 and was deployed to the Dardanelles. He died in action at Hill 12 near Achi Baba in Gallipoli.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
