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Major A. W. J. C. Viscount Massereene and Ferrard DSO

 

 

Daily Mirror, 28 January 1918

 

Major Algernon William John Clotworthy Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene and 5th Viscount Ferrard, had commanded the Belfast Squadron from 1907 to 1914. He was in command of C Squadron from its embarkation for France on 20 August 1914 until December 1914. He was later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry from June 1916 to September 1917.

 

Belfast Newsletter, 12 November 1928

 

First and third images, from the Belfast Evening Telegraph and Belfast Newsletter, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).