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Frederick Ernst Dubs Married Anna Lusk Young | ||||||||
| Guy Rattray Dubs [CFT #13658] Born: 1890 Died: 1930 |
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| b Kensington, London d Portsmouth, Hampshire. The Colonel and Mary Cynthia had one son, 2nd Lt. John Angus Dubs born 15th April 1920 in Marylebone, London who died in 2001 in Deben, Suffolk. John married Leita M Sole (born 1921) in Winchester in 1946. At the battle of Loos on 25th of September 1915 near Hulloch, France during very heavy fighting, when the front line was compelled to retire in order to reorganise, Captain (as he then was) Dubs was wounded. A private soldier by the name of George Stanley Peachment of A Company the 5th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, seeing his Company Commander wounded crawled to help him. The enemy fire was intense and although there was a shell-hole quite close in which a few men had taken cover, Peachment never thought of saving himself. He knelt in the open by his officer and tried to help him but while doing so he was first wounded by bomb shrapnel and a minute later was killed by a rifle bullet. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Loos memorial. The initial recommendation for the award of the Victoria Cross came from the man whose life he saved. George was unmarried so his posthumous VC was presented to his mother by King George V at Buckingham Palace. He was the youngest army recipient of the award in WWI. It is now displayed in the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection at the Imperial War Museum. Guy's father was Frederick Ernst Dubs born in 1862 in Scotland who died at Hendon, Middlesex in 1947 and his mother was Anna Lusk Young born 7th December 1865 in Scotland who died 17th August 1911 in Italy. |
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