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Obituary: Ralph Arthur KAYE (d.1933)

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Obituary: Ralph Arthur KAYE (d.1933)

billingh  (View posts) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 7:02AM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Kaye, O'Sullivan
COLONEL R. A. KAYE
Colonel Ralph Arthur Kaye, C.M.G., who died last Friday, was the third son of James Kaye, of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Wellington College, and passed twelfth into the R.M.A. Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, and served mostly with Mountain Batteries in India, taking part in the Hazara Expedition (1891) and the N.W. Frontier Expedition (1897-8). When the War broke out he was in command of the inner defences of Portsmouth Harbour. He was sent to France with a brigade of the then new 6in. howitzers, and tool part in the battles of the Somme and Arras. He was twice mentioned in dispatches, and for his service was promoted Colonel and made C.M.G. He retired from the Army in 1917 through ill-health. He married Geraldine, daughter of Colonel G. H. W. O'Sullivan, REE.

Source: The Times, Friday, Apr 28, 1933; pg. 19; Issue 46430; col B

It would seem to be Arthur Kaye, born 1863, son of James and Alice Vivian of Potters Bar, Middlesex.

[No familial connection; transcribed while passing]

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