Name
Richard Cuthbert Lodge
14 Apr 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Scots
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 6 D and 7 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Harpenden memorials
Pre War
Richard Cuthbert was born in Headington, Oxford on 14 April 1894 to Richard Lodge, College Lecturer at St Margaret Hall, and Annie Gwendoline (nee Morgan).
On the 1901 Census living at 25, Hope Street, Edinburgh,
His father was a Professor of History at Edinburgh University and was knighted in 1917. His parents at one time lived at Lane End, Harpenden.
Wartime Service
Richard enlisted as private 1887 in 4th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 15 Dec 1914 in 16th (Service) Battalion and served in "C" Company.
The Battalion went to France in 1916 and took part in Battle of the Somme and in 1917 the Battle of Arras. Richard was an Acting Captain when he was killed in action on 27 Aug 1917.
His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial
Additional Information
Probate (Scotland) of £186 6s 4d granted to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
