Education
He was educated at King"s College London before he joined the British Army.
He was educated at King"s College London before he joined the British Army.
After the Third Anglo-Burmese War, local leaders started a guerilla war against the British forces who now occupied the country. Le Quesne"s action was during this period. He was 25 years old, and a surgeon in the Army Medical Service (later the Royal Army Medical Corps) serving with the Chinese Field Force in Burma when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 4 May 1889 during the attack on the village of Tartan (now Siallum near Voklaak Village), Burma (now Myanmar) by a column of the Chinese Field Force, Surgeon Le Quesne remained for the space of about ten minutes within five yards of the loopholed stockade, from which the enemy was firing, dressing with perfect coolness and self-possession, the wounds of an officer who shortly afterwards died.
Surgeon Le Quesne was himself severely wounded later while attending to the wounds of another officer
Le Quesne later served in the Second Boer War and World War I. He retired in 1918 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.