Captain Charles St. Clair

Captain The Right Hon. Charles Henry Murray St. Clair, 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. He was a regular soldier and was killed in action on 20th December 1914 near La Bassee  during the Battle of Givenchy aged 36. He had been born in Kensington, London and was the son of the Right Hon. Charles William St Clair  15th Baron Sinclair and Margaret Jane Baroness Sinclair of 55 Onslow Square, London, Nisbet, Duns and Herdmanston, Pencaitland and is buried in Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France where his Headstone is inscribed ” Younger Son Of Charles William St. Clair Fifteenth Baron Sinclair”. He had been educated at Eton and Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders in May 1898. He served in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War and was promoted Captain in April 1902 In June 1912 he was posted to the 1st Battalion in India. In October 1914 the Battalion was posted to France where it went to the front line.