Noel Lee (British Army officer)
Brigadier-General Noel Lee, VD (23 December 1868 – 22 June 1915) was a British businessman and British Army officer. He died of wounds received during the Gallipoli campaign while in command of the 127th (Manchester) Brigade.
He was the son of Sir Joseph Cocksey Lee.
He had been the first Territorial Force officer to be promoted to brigadier-general during the First World War,[1] having been promoted to that rank in August 1914.[2]
His eldest son, Captain Noel Desmond Lee, of the 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps was killed on the Western Front on 24 August 1917.
References
[edit]- ^ Riley 2021, pp. 187–188.
- ^ "No. 28875". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 August 1914. p. 6581.
- Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs - General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914-1918. London: Leo Cooper, pp. 81–82.
- https://www.stmarysalderley.com/ww1-2/roll-of-honour/noel-lee/
- Cherry, Niall Mark Grenfell (2001). I Shall Not Find His Equal: The Life of Brigadier-General Noel Lee, the Manchester Regiment. Fleur de Lys Publishers. ISBN 978-1873907139.
- Riley, Alec (2021). Gallipoli Diary 1915. Little Gully Publishing. ISBN 978-0645235913.
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