Name
Kilcoursie Sigismund Courtenay
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/08/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Dorsetshire Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. E. 109.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Plaque in St Mary’s Church, Wareham, Dorset
Pre War
Born on 31 Aug 1892 and baptised on 17 Nov 1892 in Wimborne, Dorset son of Dr. Kilcoursie Jocelyn and Maude Ella (Green) Courtenay of Wareham, Dorset. Educated at Haileybury College 1905-09.
Wartime Service
Formerly Private in the Royal Fusiliers he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 25 Jun 1915 Killed in action on the Somme. His body was miraculously found by his mother on the battlefield 14 months later and was buried at Bouchoir. (Recorded on church plaque).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
