Jerry, I have been interested in Howard Avenel Bligh St. George since I saw a book about him in the bookshop at the In Flanders Field museum in the cloth hall Ypres, Belgium. It was his splendid name plus the photo on the front of the book which caught my attention. He was in his full ceremonial Life Guards Kit and was a rather priggish looking young man-haughty and with a very upturned nose. I didn`t buy the book on that occasion- some six years ago and on subsequent visits it has been unavailable,out of print. He died on 15th november 1914 and is buried in the Churchyard of Zillebeke Church with a few others, not a military cemetary. There is a stained glass window to his memory which we could not see the church being closed and we could not make out from the outside which it was,. Although you say you have not made any connection with the Baronetcy St. George the names Avenel and Bligh and even Howard appear through the generatons of the Athlone Baronetcy St. George. The Carrickfergus line is extinct according to the info I got from the internet. Whom do you mean when you say his brother H oward fled to America to escape the war? He was called H0ward. It has been difficult tracing him because he appears in records as Avenel St. George or St. George Avenel. as if Avenel was his surname and the Howard bit I`ve only found out this week after several year`s search. Hope this is useful to you.He was a second Lt. in The First Life Guards and Zillebeke is just S.E of Ypres near Gheluveldt where there was fierce fighting and also at Hooge here ther were heavy losses. I will endeavour to find exactly where he fell and if he was killed on the battlefield or if he died at a dressing station. It`s all very sad isn`t it Cheerio. Viktoria.
