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Name: GLAZEBROOK, Philip Kirkland DSO

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Nee: son of John Knowles Glazebrook of Twemlow Hall, Cheshire

Birth Date: 24 Dec 1880 Swinton, Lancs.

Death Date: 7 Mar 1918 killed in action Bireh, Jerusalem

First Date: 1907

Profession: MP for Manchester South

Area: Nairobi

Book Reference: Drumkey, Eton, Fox Davies, DSO, Web

School: Eton 1894-1899 and New College, Oxford

General Information:

Web - With the outbreak of war in 1914, the Cheshire Yeomanry were mobilised, and Glazebrook served in Egypt and Palestine. He advanced to the rank of major, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in February 1918. The citation read:     For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When, by the capture of a neighbouring height, the enemy had rendered the position of two companies most precarious because they now came under concentrated machine-gun fire from their left rear, he immediately went to the most threatened spot, and by his courageous bearing and great coolness was responsible for the safe withdrawal of these companies. The unfailing energy and resolution shown by this officer were most noticeable. In March 1917 the Cheshire Yeomanry were merged with the Shropshire Yeomanry to form an infantry unit: the 10th (Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion, The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry). Major Glazebrook was killed in action on 7 March 1918 at Bireh, near Jerusalem and is buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery.
Freemason when undergrad. at Oxford 1902
Gazette 15 Jan 1907 Sportsman's licence

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