Lt Richard StGeorge Tracy Agar

[Polly Ann]

Thanks Anna for taking the trouble to contact me. I am new to Roots Chat and I can't get over, how in a short space of time so many people have been willing to help. I did know where Richard was born and christened but what mystifies me is why the war memorial says he was of this parish. I can find no connection after his christening, unless that was enough to refer to him as of this village, Orcheston St George, Wiltshire, UK

Thank you so much

Maureen

[annaS]

I too have found this web site super!  I too am pretty new to it. That's why I sometimes do look ups for people.

 It could be that the Agar's were a military family and moved around quite a lot, and like you say because he was baptised in the village and was born locally this was the nearest place he could call home!

Good luck in your research.

Anna

[forester]

His service record is at Kew, under the reference WO 339/56127.

Phil

[forester]

I've found two entries in the London Gazette, although the second only corrects the spelling of his name.

Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 19thFebruary 1916.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29478/pages/1818

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29598/supplements/5302

There is possibly a third entry some-where for Mentioned in Despatches.

Phil

[Tignarius]

Richard was born at nearby Shrewton His mother was Maud Alice Tracy who was decended from the Hugh Maxwell of Cawnpore who founded the Elgin Cotton Mills in Cawnpore shortly after the Indiah Mutiny.  Richard seems to have got his middle name St George for his cousin Hugh St George Harrison Maxwell, a Captain in the Suffolk Regiment. St George still persists in that line of the Maxwells

I wonder if Polly Ann might be able to get me a date of birth for him from the Orcheston register.

[tinkerbe]

just found adding the guy on my tree
the baptism record is on ancestry now