Middlemiss, Guy

BORN RAWUL PUSDI, INDIA 20/02/1891. SON OF CHARLES STEWART MIDDLEMISS, CIE, FRS, (1859-1945) & MARTHA FRANCES WHEELER (1867-1931), OF SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA AND “AVIERMORE”, CROWBOROUGH, SUSSEX. (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN HULL, WENT TO ALL SAINTS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND BECAME A DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER, WORKING IN INDIA. HE WAS ALSO SUPINTENDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN INDIA. HIS GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH FINDLAYSON MIDDLEMISS, LIVED AT 12, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, GODFREY AND HUGH AND ONE SISTER, AILEEN FRANCES.

HE WAS A STUDENT, LIVING IN CROWBOROUGH, WEALDEN, EAST SUSSEX (1911 CENSUS). EDUCATED AT ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, LEATHERHEAD.

GUY SERVED AS A RIFLEMAN IN THE CEYLON PLANTERS RIFLE CORPS. KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 06/05/1915, AGED 23. HE IS BURIED ON BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC
GALLIPOLI. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon_Planters%27_Rifle_Corps

HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S ST MARY’S CHURCH, LOWGATE MEMORIAL. WITH HIS HIS BROTHER, RIFLEMAN, GODFREY STEWART MIDDLEMISS, 5TH RIFLE BRIGADE, LONDON REGIMENT, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/06/1917, AGED 23.

PRESUMABLY HIS GRANDMOTHER ENSURED THAT HER TWO GRANDSONS WERE REMEMBERED AT ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE, HULL.
NOTE: LT. KENNETH MIDDLEMISS, 7TH EYR – 11, PEARSON AVENUE, BEVERLEY ROAD; & JAMES MIDDLEMISS, RNR – 40 WITTY STREET, HULL;


First name:
GUY
Military Number:
81482
Rank:
Rifleman
Date Died
06/05/1915
Place died:
BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC GALLIPOLI.
Age:
23
, CROWBOROUGH, WEALDEN, EAST SUSSEX, UK