Cemetery: Ypres Reservoir Cemetery

Country: Belgium

Area: Ieper West-Vlaanderen

Rank: Brigadier General

Force: Army

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Unit: Cdg. 27th Inf. Bde 9th (Scottish) Div. General Staff late 18th King George's Own Lancers.

Country of Service: British

Details:

V C C S I D S O Killed in action 21st September 1917. Age 46. Son of Thomas Maxwell M.D. and Violet Sophia Maxwell; husband of Charlotte Alice Hamilton Maxwell. I. A. 37. An extract taken from the London Gazette records the following: "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 Captian 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."

Photograph by Norman Brice/John Sutherland / David Milborrow