Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, DSO (22 March 1880 – 23 October 1918) was of the Barttelot Baronetcy and grandson of

Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet, (10 October 1820 – 2 February 1893) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for several constituencies. Life A member of an ancient Sussex family, Bartt ...

.Mosley, Charles (2004, p. 283)
''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage''
Published by Wilmington, Delaware. 107th edition. . The Barttelots resided at "At Ford", in the

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Early life and military career

Barttelot was born at The Manor,

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on 22 March 1880. He was educated at Fonthill,

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and

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. He then attended the

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and was commissioned as a

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in the 2nd Battalion,

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on 6 December 1899. The regiment was stationed in South Africa, so he was involved throughout the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

, part of the time he was an Aide de Camp to

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Talbot Coke, and he also served as a

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Williams, who commanded a

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. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Barttelot, on 23 July 1900, after his father,

Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Baronet Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Baronet, (11 April 1855 – 23 July 1900) was of the Barttelot baronets, Barttelot Baronetcy and son of Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet.Mosley, Charles (2004, p. 283)''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' ...

, was killed in action during the Boer War.Lundy, Darryl (30 January 2011)
"Lt.-Col. Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, 3rd Bt."
''The Peerage''. Ngaio, Wellington: Lundy Consulting Ltd. Retrieved 16 October 2008. He transferred to the 1st Battalion,

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on 12 February 1901, returning to the United Kingdom with them in October 1902. The 3rd baronet received the

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with six clasps and the

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with two. He married Gladys St. Aubyn Angove, daughter of William Collier Angove, on 17 November 1903. He was promoted to

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on 9 November 1903, and to

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on 18 May 1910. He served in

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from 1906 to 1908, and from 27 June 1911 he was Aide de camp, and from 12 August 1913 to 14 October 1914, Military Secretary to Lord Denman the

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.Ilab Lila (2008)
''Sir Walter Balfour, 1880-1918, 3rd Baronet''
Retrieved on 16 October 2008.

First World War

With the outbreak of the

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, Barttelot initially served in France with the 4th (Reserve) Battalion Coldstream Guards, from 12 August 1914, where he was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne and also awarded the French

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. He was then appointed a General Staff Officer, Grade III on 11 February 1915 and was concerned with coastal defence around

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, and served in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign from July 1915, where he was promoted

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on 1 September 1915. He was appointed a

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on 11 January 1916, for the

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. He was appointed to the

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(DSO) on 22 December 1916, and appointed GSO, Grade II from 11 September 1917. and was

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from 17 March 1918 with temporary promotion to

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whilst performing those duties. He was awarded a

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promotion to lieutenant-colonel for his service in

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on 3 June 1918, and was killed, (aged 38) on 23 October 1918 in Tehran,

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and was buried in the Tehran War Cemetery.Casualty Details—Barttelot, Sir Walter Balfour

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. Retrieved on 20 October 2008. In addition to his DSO, he had also been

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four times. He had come to know

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during his time in Tehran, and in a letter to her mother on 25 October 1918, she wrote:

Family

Barttelot was survived by his wife and two sons. The eldest son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot, 4th Baronet, was killed in action as a

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on 16 August 1944, in

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during

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during the

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. Barttelot was commemorated with memorial services in Stopham Parish Church on 9 November 1918, and at

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on 11 November. His widow remarried, to

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N. W. Diggle CMG,

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in Rome, on 30 April 1920. Barttelot's brother,

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Nigel Kenneth Walter Barttelot, had been killed in the early days of World War I, whilst commanding the destroyer HMS ''Liberty'' during the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

Legacy

Barttelot Road, in

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, takes its name from the family.''Hidden Horsham — Sussex Police Headquarters''
(2008). Retrieved on 18 October 2008.

References

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