| McCorquodale | Hugh Stewart | | Lieutenant | He was killed in action at Spion Kop, January 24th, 1900, He was the youngest son of George McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows and Gadlys, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, by his second wife Emily, daughter of Reverend T Sanderson, vicar of Doddington, Lancashire. Lieutenant McCorquodale was born August 1875, and educated at Harrow, where he was in the school football team. From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in June 1897. He was fond of all sports, shooting, hunting, fishing, and when at Cambridge, was whip to the drag hounds. He had intended joining his brothers in business, but when the war broke out went to South Africa and joined Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry on January 23rd, 1900. In the battle the next day he and his men were exposed to a terrific flank fire. Mr Winston Churchill states that the night before Spion Kop, when crossing the pontoon bridge over the Tugela, he heard his name called, and recognised the face of a boy he had known at Harrow; this was Lieutenant McCorquodale, who said he had just arrived and hoped "to get a job". Next day Mr Churchill heard that some one who could not be identified had been found leaning forward on his rifle dead. A pair of field glasses, broken by a bullet, bore the name "McCorquodale". Joined in the evening, killed at dawn, "gallant fellow, he had soon got his job; the great sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit". Lieutenant McCorquodale was buried on the field of battle where he fell (See Lieutenant Hill-Trevor)
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