Lionel Carroll

November 3, 1890 (age 24)

There is a story that he originally intended to join the King"s Royal Rifle Corps but was turned down he then joined the fourth Pioneer Battalion, Coldstream Guards. He became a lieutenant and finally a captain. In 1908, he became engaged to Catherine Margaret Boscawen (1891-1983), granddaughter of the 6th Viscount Falmouth, taking a diamond from an earring of the Petre jewels to make the ring. He served in France and Belgium, but died at Paris-Plage on 30 September 1915 of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos. He became the 16th Lord Petre after his father"s death in December 1908. A notable ancestor is Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

Lionel Carroll

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He was educated at the Oratory, Edgbaston & Sandhurst.

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There is a story that he originally intended to join the King"s Royal Rifle Corps but was turned down he then joined the fourth Pioneer Battalion, Coldstream Guards. He became a lieutenant and finally a captain. In 1908, he became engaged to Catherine Margaret Boscawen (1891-1983), granddaughter of the 6th Viscount Falmouth, taking a diamond from an earring of the Petre jewels to make the ring.

He served in France and Belgium, but died at Paris-Plage on 30 September 1915 of wounds received in action at the Battle of Loos.

He became the 16th Lord Petre after his father"s death in December 1908. A notable ancestor is Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

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