Sir Archibald Leonard Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet (3 June 1884 – 12 July 1918) was a

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of the United Kingdom, who died of illness towards the end of

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Archibald was born in

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, Sydney, on 3 June 1884 to

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and Helen Tooth, the youngest of three sons, and had four sisters. Brothers Captain Selwyn Lucas-Tooth (born 19 March 1879, Sydney), 3rd Battalion of the

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, was killed in action at

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on 20 October 1914; and Captain Douglas Keith Lucas-Tooth (born October 1882, Sydney), 9th

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, died in action in the Battle of

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, he rejoined the company which was almost immediately called to active service. After a long period of training, and coastal defence duty on an east coast of Scotland, the regiment returned to

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. On 20 June 1916 he went to France with the battalion. He rose to the rank of

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, and died on active service of

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on 12 July 1918 at the age of 34. As neither he nor his brothers left any male heirs the title therefore expired with him. Lady Rosa remarried in 1923 and Holme Lacy was sold.

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