Sub-Lieutenant Adair Grey Bagshawe
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
04/06/1915
Born 12th December 1884, the son of Frank
Theodore Bagshawe, late Commissioner of the Madras Police,
and Lucy (née Alexander) Bagshawe, of Hill House,
Ufford, Woodbridge, Suffolk (1914), later of 78 West
Cromwell Rd., Kensington, SW, later of 51 Bridge Street,
Battersea, London.
He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey and on
HM Training Ship Worcester. Later, after a qualifying
period at sea, he was gazetted to the Royal Indian Marine.
Wounded & Missing, assumed killed in action, aged
30 years.
For family reasons he relinquished his commission and
took up farming in Suffolk (Home address 2/11/14: 4
Redcliffe St., Redcliffe Gardens, London SW). He enlisted
in the RNVR as Ordinary Seaman London Z/699 at the beginning
of November 1914 and was gazetted Sub Lieutenant on
31st January 1915 & posted to the 6th Depot Battalion
at Crystal Palace. He joined the Collingwood Bn. at
Blandford 31st March 1915. He was wounded early in the
attack during the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4th
1915, but remained with his men until they were ordered
to retire. At that point he was hit again and was unable
to join in the retreat.
