Robert Clements Gore
Brigadier-General Robert Clements Gore CB CMG (February 1867 – 13 April 1918) was a British Army officer.
Clements Gore (WW1)
Clements Gore was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and commissioned from RMC Sandhurst. He was killed in action in Belgium in 1918, while commanding the 101st Brigade. His remains were buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.[1]
His only child, Adrian Clements Gore, also achieved the rank of Brigadier in the British Army and served with distinction in the Second World War.
References
- Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs : General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914-1918. London: Leo Cooper. pp. 65–66. ISBN 0850524636.
External links
- "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Portraits of Robert Clements Gore at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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