General Earl Thomas Pakenham

1864 - 1915  (50 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 22 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Thomas Pakenham
  Prefix	General Earl
  Birth	19 Oct 1864	Leinster Street,, Dublin, Leinster, Éire
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Aug 1915	Gallipoli, Puglia, Italia
  In Battle
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. General Earl Thomas Pakenham,   b. 19 Oct 1864, Leinster Street,, Dublin, Leinster, Éire d. 21 Aug 1915, Gallipoli, Puglia, Italia  (Age 50 years) ▻ Mary Julia Child-Villiers,  m. 8 Nov 1899 + 2. Georgiana Frances Henrietta Pakenham,   b. 1863   d. 30 Jul 1943  (Age 80 years) ▻ Hugh Gough,  m. 5 Oct 1899
  Person ID	I586781	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	General Earl William Lygon Pakenham,   b. 31 Jan 1819, Pakenham Hall d. 19 Apr 1887, 24 Bruton Street, London, Middlesex, England (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Selinia Rice-Trevor,   b. 11 Sep 1836   d. 22 Jan 1918, 24 Bruton Street, London, Middlesex, England (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1862	All Saints, Knightsbridge, London, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F253331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Julia Child-Villiers,   b. 26 May 1877   d. 21 Nov 1933 (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	8 Nov 1899	St. George's, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England
  Children	1. Earl Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham,   b. 1902   d. 1961 (Age 59 years) + 2. Earl Francis Aungier Pakenham,   b. 5 Dec 1905   d. 2001 (Age 95 years) + 3. Mary Katherine Pakenham,   b. 23 Aug 1907   d. Yes, date unknown + 4. Violet Pakenham,   b. 13 Mar 1912   d. 12 Jan 2002 (Age 89 years) + 5. Pansy Pakenham
  Family ID	F253333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2013

  
  

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  5th Earl of Longford as Lord Silchester until 1887, was an Irish peer and soldier. succeeded in the earldom on his father's death in 1887. He served in the Life Guards , achieving the rank of Colonel , and also held the honorary post of Lord-Lieutenant of County Longford from 1887 to 1915. In 1901 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick . During the First World War Lord Longford commanded the 2nd (South Midland) Brigade of the British 2nd Mounted Division , a yeomanry , with the rank of Brigadier-General . The Division was initially based in Egypt but was sent dismounted to Suvla on the Gallipoli peninsula as reinforcements during the Battle of Sari Bair . On 21 August 1915 the Division was in reserve for the final attack on Scimitar Hill . When the initial attack by the 29th Division failed, the yeomanry were ordered to advance in the open across a dry salt lake. Raked by shrapnel fire, most of the brigades halted in the shelter of Green Hill but Longford led his brigade in a charge which captured the summit of the hill. As he continued to advance, he was killed. His last words before his death were, reputedly "Don't bother ducking, the men don't like it and it doesn't do any good...." Longford's body was never recovered as the British made no further advances before the evacuation of Suvla on 20 December . His grave is marked as a special memorial in Green Hill Cemetery at Suvla . He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Edward . His second son Frank later succeeded his elder brother and became a prominent Labour politician. war während des Ersten Weltkrieges im Rang eines Brigadegenerals Kommandeur der 2nd (South Midland) Brigade der 2. berittenen Division (Maj Gen William Eliot Peyton ), eine Einheit der berittenen Miliz ( Yeomanry ). Die Division war während des Krieges in stationiert, wurde aber im August 1915 als abgesessene Infanterie zur Verstärkung der britischen Truppen nach Suvla auf der türkischen Halbinsel Gallipoli verlegt, wo die Alliierten gelandet waren, um den Durchbruch nach Konstantinopel zu erzwingen. Am 21. August 1915 bildete die Brigade während des Angriffs auf den Scimitar-Hügel die Reserve. Pakenham führte mit ihr einen erfolgreichen Angriff auf den Gipfel der Scimitar-Höhe durch, bei dem er getötet wurde. Da die Briten den eroberten Gipfel im Verlauf der weiteren Kampfhandlungen wieder räumen mussten und die Frontlinie bis zur Evakuierung der alliierten Truppen im Dezember nicht mehr nach vorne verschoben werden konnte, konnte Pakenhams Leiche nicht geborgen werden. Erst drei Jahre nach dem Waffenstillstand konnten die Leichen geborgen, aber nicht mehr identifiziert werden, obwohl Pakenham sich zu Lebzeiten das Familienwappen mit dem Wahlspruch "Gloria Virtutis Umbra" auf die Brust hatte tätowieren lassen. Auf seinem Grabstein auf dem Green Hill Cemetery in Suvla stehen die Worte: "Believed to be buried in this cemetery" - wahrscheinlich auf diesem Friedhof begraben