Major Charles Bateson Harvey

Charles Bateson Harvey was born in 1859 at Langley Park, Buckinghamshire. He was the son of Sir Robert Bateson Harvey 1st Bt and Diana Jane Creyke. He was educated at Eton. He joined the 10th Hussars as a sub lieutenant on 22 Jan 1881, promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1881. He fought in the Sudan in 1884, at El Teb and Tamai. His promotion to captain was gazetted on 21 Jul 1889. He was appointed adjutant in the 17th Yeomanry Brigade on 24 July 1894, and promoted to major on 3 Apr 1897. He married Catherine Maria Lascelles, daughter of the Reverend Hon James Walter Lascelles and granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Harewood. Major Harvey went out to South Africa with his regiment in 1899 but was killed in action on 4 Jan 1900 at Coleberg while leading his squadron in a charge against retreating Boers along with the Inniskilling Dragoons. In this action 5 other men of the two squadrons were killed.

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