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Lieutenant Colonel ERSKINE MAGNIAC

Regiment & Unit/Ship

27th Punjabis

Commanding

Date of Death

Died 28 April 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA MEMORIAL

Panel 54.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Indian
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Youngest son of the late Maj. Gen. Francis Lane Magniac (Madras Light Cavalry), and of Mrs. Magniac, of Coombe Cot, Abbotsham, Devon. Educated at Clifton College and Sandhurst. Gazetted Jan., 1902. Served on North West Frontier of India 1909. A.D.C. to Sir Edward Baker (Lieut. Governor of Bengal); at the expiration became personal assistant to Sir Archibald Earle (Chief Commissioner of Assam). A Member of the Free Foresters Cricket Club. His brother Meredith Magniac also fell.
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