The Queen's uncle and the bravest last stand: Choking on gas, blown up, riddled with bullets... heroics of the Queen Mum's brother revealed...
Fergus Bowes-Lyon, son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, elder brother to the Queen Mother and the uncle Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen Mother's brother and so very many lost. The country and their families never truly recovered from the carnage and waste.
The loss of Britain's youth in the first World War war was all the more poignant because of the shocking carnage due to incompetence in the upper ranks. Had the leadership been based on merit rather than social rank, many lives would have been saved. Terrible and unnecessary loss. Many courageous men died for an uncertain cause.
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