Background
Fawcus was born on 19 October 1886 in Keswick, the second son of W.P.J. Fawcus.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Flynn Fawcus Defence Science Organisation Military Cross Territorial Decoration, was awarded the Military Cross for leading a night attack at Cape Helles in August 1915 at the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign, awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur for his bombing work in the Gallipoli Campaign, awarded the Defence Science Organisation for his Command of a Battalion of the 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment toward the end of World War I and was afterwards Commander of the 1/5th Sherwood Foresters.
Education
He was educated at Bedford Modern School.
Career
Fawcus was on active service with the Marakwet Patrol in British East Africa in 1911 and mentioned in despatches. At the outbreak of World War I he was on active service the next day with the King"s African Rifles in German East Africa where he served until February 1915 before being sent to Egypt with the 7th Manchester Regiment. From January to July 1916, Fawcus was in Egypt with the 7th, 8th and 9th Manchesters and then served in France until 1918.
During World War I he was mentioned in despatches three times.
Fawcus was killed in an aeroplane crash at Pagham in the United Kingdom on 10 August 1936. The pilot, Michael Richard Montagu, was apparently attempting a third loop the loop over the sea when the engine choked and the plane plunged into shallow water killing Fawcus and Montagu.
Montagu was a stepson of Lord Kimberley. He was well known in East Africa where he’d lived in Kenya and Tanganyika.
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In May 1915, Fawcus was in Gallipoli with the 7th Manchesters and the 1/6th Lancashire Fusiliers where he was awarded the Military Cross for leading a night attack at Cape Helles in August 1915. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for his bombing work during the Gallipoli Campaign. As Commander of a battalion of the 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in June 1918 and he later commanded the 1/5th Sherwood Foresters for eighteen months.
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August 10, 1936 (aged 49)