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| Subject: Captain Edward Lovegrove Fri May 04, 2018 9:56 pm | |
| [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]"Captain Edward Lovegrove was dangerously wounded during the Battle of Laingsnek on 28 January 1881 shortly after taking over the command of the 58th Foot from his senior officer who had become a casualty. His military career commenced when he purchased an Ensigncy in the 3rd West India Regiment in February 1868. He was promoted Lieutenant some 15 months later in May 1869 and is recorded in the 1871 Census as living on half pay with his widowed father shortly before his appointment to the 58th Foot in June 1871. He assumed the role of Adjutant in May 1877 and was present in the engagement at Ulundi during the final phase of the Zulu War. He was advanced to Captain on 18 October 1879. Reports on the Battle of Laingsnek state that after all the other senior officer’s having been killed or seriously wounded that he “the acting second-in-command” led the men on, but he too fell wounded, a Regimental history recording “Private Godfrey and Band-Boy Martin, 58th Regiment, remained with Major Hingeston and Captain Lovegrove respectively, when these officers were wounded, and notwithstanding the heavy fire, refused to leave them until they had been carried down the hill and taken to the ambulance.” For his gallantry Charles Godfrey was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Godfrey later served during the Anglo Boer War and was wounded during the armoured train disaster near Chievely when Winston Churchill was captured. For a similar act of gallantry 2nd Lieutenant Alan Hill of the 58th was awarded the Victoria Cross for endeavouring to save the life of Lieutenant Baillie who, carrying the Regimental Colour, had led the 58th up the hillside. In all the 58th suffered nearly 80 killed and more than 90 wounded during this single action. Later writing in his diary Lovegrove recorded that an attack such as his Regiment had been called upon to undertake, relying on the bayonet against entrenched marksmen, was doomed to failure and was against “the recognised principles of warfare”. Edward Lovegrove was promoted Major in December 1882 and receiving a gratuity retired from the Service on 18 November 1885. In later years, as a retired senior officer living in Cape Town, he offered his services during the Anglo Boer War and was duly appointed to assist the Red Cross. He took charge of their Depot at Wynberg where he assumed responsibility for the distribution of gifts to hospitals both at the base and on the lines. After the conclusion of hostilities he was appointed as the Officer Commanding the Discharge Depot for the South African Irregular Force and it is in this capacity that his name and his signature recorded on innumerable QSA and KSA medal rolls will be well-known to South African medal collectors. He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel on 18 October 1902. The ease of archival and historical research now affords medal collectors many opportunities to add colour to the recipient of a group of medals. Such is the case with Edward Lovegrove. Edward was born in September 1846 and was baptised 4 weeks later in the parish of Greenwich in the County of Kent. His father, Samuel of Ludgate Hill, was a well-known tavern owner and wine merchant, having joined his father Samuel Lovegrove, Edward’s grandfather, who first started his business in operating the well-known Horn tavern in Doctor’s Commons. He later moved to the Crown and Sceptre at Greenwich and then built two splendid taverns at Blackwall on the Greenwich Waterfront. At the same time he ran the well-known London Coffee-House, Ludgate-Hill. Grandfather Samuel Lovegrove was held in very high regard and was admitted to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cooks in 1841. A contemporary writer colourfully described him as being the “reputed Prince of Artistes” and “that presiding genius of the kitchen” and even Charles Dickens wrote about his splendid white-bait dinners served at the Brunswick Tavern on the Wharf near the passenger embarkation point for boats to America. The white-bait is a small fish caught in the River Thames which requires special cooking and preparation. It was clearly intended that grandson Edward would follow in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps and in September 1867 Edward was admitted into the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Vintners in London. His intentions evidently changed and coming from a relatively wealthy family he purchased his Ensigncy just a few months later. After his eventful military career it would seem that his father’s death on 9 April 1885 induced Edward to resign his Major’s Commission. The London Gazette of 28 September records his name, being one of the co-executors of his father’s Will, being added to three other individuals who had already been granted probate of his father’s will by the High Court of Justice. In January 1894 Edward, still unmarried, returned to the Cape Colony. It is evident that sometime thereafter, but before 1905, he married. Interestingly his wife was Florence Annie Robertson. She was a widow having previously been married to Richard Henry Keats D’Arcy who had died in the Transvaal in 1885. Richard Henry Keates D’Arcy was the brother of the Colonial Zulu War hero and Victoria Cross recipient Cecil D’Arcy. Richard had served as an acting Magistrate in Kimberley during the mid-1870’s and as an Officer with the Dutoitspan Hussars later to be called the Diamonds Fields Horse with whom he earned the South Africa General Service medal with bar 1877-8. He subsequently went to Pretoria in 1879 and is remembered for organising the Pretoria Horse, often referred to as D’Arcy’s Horse, during the Siege of Pretoria during the First Boer War. He was badly wounded in the foot in the vicinity of Pretoria on 29 December 1880 and never really recovered. ROB MITCHELL CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, JULY 2017 copyright." |
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| [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]His grave is situated in Bournemouth Cemetery, Dorset |
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