Captain CLAUDE FRANK LETHBRIDGE TEMPLER
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Gloucestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
Date of Death
Died 04 June 1918
Age 22 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Col. Henry Templer, O.B.E. (late Indian Cavalry), and Mrs. Henry Templer, of 16, Avenue Charles Floquet, Champ de Mars, Paris. Capt. Templer was taken prisoner on 22nd Dec., 1914, near Givenchy while reconnoitring an enemy position. He subsequently made 13 attempts at escape, being successful in 1917, when he received the honour of a private audience of H.M. The King. He returned to the front in 1918 and was killed on returning from a successful raid on the enemy's trenches. His heroism so impressed the late F. M. Sir Henry Wilson, that he ordered the publication of an official pamphlet entitled "Behind the German Lines".
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