Name
Frederick Stanley Maude (KCB, CMG, DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/11/1917
53
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief
General Staff
Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Knight Commander of the Bath, CMG, Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Maude Tomb centre of cemetery.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford,
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of the late Sir Frederick Francis and Lady Catherine Mary (nee BISHOPP) MAUDE; husband of Lady Cecil Cornelia Marianne St Leger (nee TAYLOR) MAUDE of Hampton Court Palace.
His parents married 1853 in the Kensington, London, district. Dame Catherine died 23 January 1892 at Eccleston Square, Middx, aged 65, and was buried 28 January in Brompton Cemetery, London; Sir Frederick died 20 June 1897 in Torquay, Devon, aged 76, and was buried 25 June, also in Brompton Cemetery.
Stanley was born about 1864 in Gibraltar, and was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He married 1 November 1893 at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London; they had three children. Dame Cecil died 15 February 1942 in Ealing, Middx, aged 75.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1871 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1881 Census, he was a scholar aged 16 at Eton College, Bucks. On the 1891 Census, a Lieutenant and Adjutant 1st Coldstream Guards aged 26, he lived in Chelsea Barracks, London. On the 1901 Census, he is presumably serving in South Africa. On the 1911 Census, a Lieutenant-General in the Army aged 46, he lived in Carsharlton, Surrey, with two children.
Wartime Service
Served in the Sudan and South Africa, as well as holding a number of positions of command.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 23 October 1914, and died of cholera.
Additional Information
He was mentioned in the London Gazette 28 January 1916, 13 July 1916 and 19 October 1916.
There are many articles about Stanley including: the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 24 April 1915, 26 June 1915, 10 March 1917, 3 November 1917, 24 November 1917, 1 December 1917, 8 December 1917, 15 December 1917, 9 February 1918 and 23 November 1918. Also, in the St Michael’s Church Parish Magazine dated April 1917 and December 1917.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
