Montagu Locke Yeatherd

Name

Montagu Locke Yeatherd

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

11/04/1917
33

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Captain
12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. D. 3.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the Hertingfordbury memorials*1

Pre War

Son of Mabel Elizabeth Yeatherd, of 31, Montpelier Square, South Kensington, London, and the late Lt. Col. E. W. Yeatherd (2nd Bn. The King's Own Royal Regt.). 

Wartime Service

Joined 7th Queen's Own Hussars from Sandhurst, April, 1903, and transf. to XIIth Royal Lancers,

Additional Information

*1 Raymond and his brother Montague are also commemorated on the family headstone in Hertingfordbury (St. Mary) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:


IN BELOVED MEMORY OF RAYMOND HOOKAH YEATHERD. LIEUTENANT, QUEENS BAYS
KILLED IN ACTION ON SOMME SEPTEMBER 15TH 1916 AGED 25

AND OF

MONTAGUE LOCKE YEATHERD CAPTAIN XII ROYAL LANCERS LATE VII QUEENS OWN HUSSARS 
KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS APRIL 11. 1917. AGED 33
BURIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD

ONLY SONS OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL YEATHERD