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Douglas Edward Brodie

Douglas Edward Brodie

Male 1873 - 1916  (42 years)

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  • Name Douglas Edward Brodie 
    Birth 27 Aug 1873  Brodie Castle, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 18 Aug 1916  Bazentin, Frankrijk Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10260  Evert Louwe Goosen
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Lord Hugh Fife Ashley Brodie, 23rd Chief of Clan Brodie,   b. 8 Sep 1840, Brodie Castle, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1889, Glion, Montreux, Zwitserland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Lady Eleanor Reynolds-Morenton,   b. Abt 1845   d. 1 Feb 1925, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 1 Jan 1868 
    Family ID F3962  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Aug 1873 - Brodie Castle, Moray, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Aug 1916 - Bazentin, Frankrijk Link to Google Earth
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    Onderscheidingen
    Militairy Cross    		Militairy Cross
    Het Military Cross is een Britse militaire onderscheiding die wordt uitgereikt aan officieren en ook aan militairen in de lagere rangen van het Britse leger. De onderscheiding werd vroeger ook uitgereikt aan officieren van de legers van de staten van het Gemenebest van Naties.

  • Notes 
    • Capt. Cameron Highlanders.
      Killed at Bazentin-le-Petit (WWI France).
    • Captain Douglas Edward Brodie, 3rd Battalion the Cameron Highlanders. Son of Hugh Fife Ashley Brodie of Brodie Castle, Forres, and of Lady Eleanor, daughter of Henry Reynolds-Morenton, second Earl of Ducie. Born at Brodie Castle. Educated at Summerfields, Oxford and Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire. In 1897 he joined the British South Africa Company in London and for the next eighteen years was closely connected with development work in South Africa, being appointed successively Joint Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Company. He also acted as Joint Secretary to the Rhodes Trust and for a time as Secretary to the Rhodesia and Mashonaland Railway Company and the African Trans-Continental Telegraph Company. His work brought him into association with Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Sir Alfred Beit, Sir Starr Jameson, Earl Grey and other distinguished South Africa pioneers. He was released at his own request from the Company's service in June 1915 and obtained a commission in the Cameron Highlanders, joining at Invergordon, Scotland. Was sent to join the Cameron Highlanders in France. He was promoted to Captain shortly before he was killed in action on the Somme, France aged 42 years when attached to the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders. He is also commemorated on a family grave in the Brodie Castle Burial Ground, Forres, Moray, Scotland (see Find a Grave Memorial 208445718).

      He was one of three brothers who were educated at Winchester College. Captain Alastair William Matthew Brodie, Seaforth Highlanders, died in the Second Boer War (see Find a Grave Memorial 214586775) and the other brother, Ronald Hugh Brodie fought in WW1, was twice wounded, won the MC and survived the war.