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Royalty Killed in Action in World War I (The Great War)
grandduchessella:
That is a sad irony, isn't it? :(
a photo of Ena at Maurice's gravesite in Ypres (Beatrice had requested that he be buried where he fell, along with his comrades, rather than be brought back home)
a memorial to Maurice Battenberg in England
bluetoria:
Prince Ernst of Lippe- KIA Villiers-les-Guise, near St-Quentin, France 28 Aug. 1914
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe kia Liege, Belgium 6 Aug. 1914 (**oldest royal killed, age 56 and also first to be killed )
Prince Oleg Constantinovitch - d. of wounds received in action (while in a cavalry charge against
the Germans) at Vilna 12 Oct.1914 (***he was the only royal on the Allied side to die during WW1 according the Prince David Chavchavadze)
This information is wonderful. The more you go into it & see how young they were is absolutely heartbreaking!
Prince David Chav...cannot be quite right - Maurice Battenberg?
Of the princes of Lippe do you know if Ernest & Frederick William were related? (I know who Fred. Wm. was but I can't place Ernst.)
The saddest of all (now that you've given the exact dates) is still, IMO, poor Max of H-K...only one week to the day before his 21st birthday!
I read the terribly moving account of his wishing to send back a locket containing her picture to Mossy as he lay dying (brought to her eventually via Queen Mary & Daisy Connaught)...& when you think of what he said in Alice Topham's memoirs about '"War isn't like that [glorious] at all...my father says it's horrible." :'(
THANK YOU for the info! :)
HerrKaiser:
Are there any reasons other than luck why only one or a few royals died from the Allied side in WWI? Did the British government selectively grant them deferments?
bluetoria:
Maybe it's due to what you wrote before about the German nobles going first into battle. The Allies must have kept their higher ranking officers back (isn't that why the ordinary soldiers always complained about them?)
grandduchessella:
--- Quote ---prince Ernst of Lippe- KIA Villiers-les-Guise, near St-Quentin, France 28 Aug. 1914
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe kia Liege, Belgium 6 Aug. 1914 (**oldest royal killed, age 56 and also first to be killed )
Prince Oleg Constantinovitch - d. of wounds received in action (while in a cavalry charge against
the Germans) at Vilna 12 Oct.1914 (***he was the only royal on the Allied side to die during WW1 according the Prince David Chavchavadze)
/quote]
This information is wonderful. The more you go into it & see how young they were is absolutely heartbreaking!
Prince David Chav...cannot be quite right - Maurice Battenberg?Of the princes of Lippe do you know if Ernest & Frederick William were related? (I know who Fred. Wm. was but I can't place Ernst.)THANK YOU for the info! :)
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You're right--that struck me too. Maybe he meant Romanov?
Here's the Lippe info (best as I could gather because geneaology isn't my strong suit):
Ernst Julius Adalbert Emil Wilhelm Gustav Karl Philipp KIA Aug 1914 at age 22--son of Rudolf of Lippe & Princess Louise of Ardeck
Rudolf’s brother and Ernst’s uncle was Friedrich Wilhelm who was KIA Aug 1914 (same month as nephew) at 56!
Interestingly, it was his daughter Calixta (I see where she got the unusual name--her father's last name of 6 was Calixt) who married Henry & Irene’s son Waldemar in 1919. Also a cousin married the poor Duchess Marie of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (she of the illegitimate child and horrible 1st marriage) and another cousin who married Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. (I need to actually calculate it—I’m not sure of degree of cousinhood but I don’t think it’s super-distant, not 4th or 5th or anything).
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