Name
Francis Aylmer Maxwell (VC, CSI, DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1917
46
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Brigadier General
General Staff
27th Infantry Brigade, 9th (Scottish) Division (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Victoria Cross, Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Distinguished Service Order and Bar
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
I. A. 37
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 7 Sep 1871 in Guildford, Surrey son of Serg. Maj. Thomas Maxwell, M.D. (Bengal Medical Service) and Violet Sophia (Lockhart) Maxwell. Educated at the United Service College 1883-90 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers (Indian Army). Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army in 1891. He served in the South African War 1899-1902. On 31 Mar 1900: "Lieutenant Maxwell was one of three Officers not belonging to "Q" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, specially mentioned by Lord Roberts as having shown the greatest gallantry, and disregard of danger, in carrying out the self-imposed duty of saving the guns of that Battery during the affair at Korn Spruit on 31st March 1900. This Officer went out on five different occasions and assisted to bring in two guns and three limbers, one of which he, Captain Humphreys, and some Gunners, dragged in by hand. He also went out with Captain Humphreys and Lieutenant Stirling to try to get the last gun in, and remained there till the attempt was abandoned. During a previous Campaign (the Chitral Expedition of 1895) Lieutenant Maxwell displayed gallantry in the removal of the body of Lieutenant-Colonel F D Battye, Corps of Guides, under fire, for which, though recommended, he received no reward." London Gazette 8 Mar 1901. In 1910 he was A.D.C to Lord Kitchener in India and later Military Secretary to Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India. He married Charlotte Alice Hamilton Osborne in 1906 in St Georges, Hanover Square, London.
Wartime Service
He was killed in action at Ypres shot by a German sniper during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge.
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant Colonel Eustace Lockhart Maxwell who was killed in action on 20 Jul 1916 and who is also commemorated on this memorial. United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
