Arthur Edward Flynn Fawcus

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Flynn Fawcus DSO MC TD (19 October 1886 – 10 August 1936), was awarded the Military Cross for leading a night attack at Cape Helles in August 1915 at the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign, awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur for his bombing work in the Gallipoli Campaign, awarded the DSO for his Command of a Battalion of the 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment toward the end of World War I and was afterwards Commander of the 1/5th Sherwood Foresters.

Life Fawcus was born on 19 October 1886 in Keswick, the second son of W.P.J. Fawcus.

Fawcus was on active service with the Marakwet Patrol in British East Africa in 1911 and mentioned in despatches. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for his bombing work during the Gallipoli Campaign.

From January to July 1916, Fawcus was in Egypt with the 7th, 8th and 9th Manchesters and then served in France until 1918. and he later commanded the 1/5th Sherwood Foresters for eighteen months. The pilot, Michael Richard Montagu, was apparently attempting a third loop the loop over the sea when the engine choked and the plane plunged into shallow water killing Fawcus and Montagu. Montagu was a stepson of Lord Kimberley. He was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.