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.
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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]
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- 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.
External links
edit- ^ Riley 2021, pp. 187–188.