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William Glynne Charles Gladstone (14 July 1885 – 13 April 1915) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and the last of four generations of Gladstones to sit in the House of Commons, the first being his great-grandfather Sir John Gladstone (1764–1851).
Lt Gladstone is thought to have been the last soldier whose body was exhumed from france and repatriated to England. Following this, the idea of equality in death of all ranks and officers led to the Imperial War Grave Commision, becoming the commonwealth war grave commission.
William Glynne Charles Gladstone was the grandson of the great statesman and Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. He was recorded on a census for the first time in 1891. He was living with his family at ‘New Hall’, Hawarden, Flintshire.
Army career and death. known 15th April 1915. Gladstone arrived in France on 15 March 1915, proud of being with his regiment and of doing his duty. He wrote home frequently; his heart was in Flintshire.
Lt Gladstone is thought to have been the last soldier whose body was exhumed from france and repatriated to England. Following this, the idea of equality in death of all ranks and officers led to the Imperial War Grave Commision, becoming the commonwealth war grave commission.
4 de ago. de 2014 · “Gladstone’s soldier grandson” was Lieutenant William Glynne Charles Gladstone, who had been shot dead by a sniper a few days before while serving in the trenches of northern France.
The Glynne-Gladstone Archive comprises approximately 300,000 documents, and several thousand relate directly to William Gladstone, i.e. letters written by or to him and papers that pertain to crucial events in his own life and that of the British nation.
