ROMANTIC CAREER ENDED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 6

ROMANTIC CAREER ENDED

SOLDIER KILLED WHO ONCE FOUGHT FOR THE TURKS.

A romantic career lias been closed: by the <leath in action of Mr. Herbert, Gerald Montagu while serving as a private in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Mr. Montagu, who was the second soil of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Montagu, of Braeside, ■ Hillingdon and an old pupil of St. Paul's School, came into prominence during the war between Turkey and Italy, in which he fought with the Turks as a volunteer. A stir was caused by criticisms of Italian methods of warfare which hr cabled homo from Tripoli. Questions * s asked in Parliament, and Mr. Ivjtagu, tflio was then a second lieutenant on probation, in tho sth Special Reserve Battalion Itoyal Fusiliers ,was notified that his commission was cancelled. Invalided from Tripoli .lie went to Constantii nople, where lie was decorated by the | Sultan in recognition of the gallantry he had 1 shown in the field. In the I present war Mr. Montagu, as a lieuj tenant in tho Munster Fusiliers, took part in the Suvla Bay landing, and other operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula. In the autumn of 1915 he returned to England suffering from wounds, and nervous breakdown, and, owing to his illness, he resigned his commission. When he v became fit for active service again he joined the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry as ? private. '