Theodore Hugh Galton (1888-1914)

Obituary
Second Lieutenant Theodore Hugh Galton, Worcestershire Regiment, was killed on the morning of October 20, only his first day in the firing line, having arrived at the front on the evening of the 19th with the 3rd Worcesters, to which he was gazetted from the Irish Guards shortly after the outbreak of the war. Mr. Galton, who was 26, was the eldest son of Major Hubert Galton, of lHadzor, Worcestershire, his mother being a daughter of the late General the Hon. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C. He numbered among his uncles Bishop Galton, S.J., Vicar-Apostolic of British Guiana and Barbados, and. Father Charles Sigismund Galton, S.J., formerly Rector of Beaumont College. A Requiem has been celebrated at Hadzor.

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