
Posted on April 6, 2019 By ww1centenary
Brigadier General
DE GEX, FRANCIS JOHN
Died 02/04/1917
Aged 55
Base Commandant, Rouen
General Staff
formerly
Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
C B, C M G, 4 times Mentioned in Despatches
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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