Brigadier General FRANCIS JOHN DE GEX
Regiment & Unit/Ship
General Staff
Base Commandant, Rouen
Date of Death
Died 02 April 1917
Age 55 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Companion of the Bath, Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Four times Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Born at Frome, Somerset. Son of The Rev. F. de Gex,; husband of Edith H. de Gex, of Stone House, Camberley, Surrey. Educated at Oxford and R.M.C. Sandhurst. Commanded 1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regt.
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