Lieutenant FRANK ALEXANDER DE PASS
Regiment & Unit/Ship
34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse
Date of Death
Died 25 November 1914
Age 27 years old
Photographer: Johan Pauwels
- Country of Service Indian
- Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Eliot and Beatrice de Pass, of 23, Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, London. Born in London. Inscription on tomb quoted from a sonnet by his Rugby school-fellow, Rupert Brooke. ". . . . . . . Loved. Gone proudly friended.".
- Personal Inscription SON OF ELIOT AND BEATRICE DE PASS BORN 26TH APRIL 1887 ". . . . . . . LOVED. GONE, PROUDLY FRIENDED".
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29074, dated 16th Feb., 1915, records the following:-"For conspicuous bravery near Festubert on the 24th November, in entering a German sap and destroying a traverse in the face of the enemy's bombs, and for subsequently rescuing, under heavy fire, a wounded man who was lying exposed in the open."
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