Capt. Francis Prior Lacy , Captain Francis Prior LACY Unit: Westmoreland and Cumberalnd Yeomanry Other Unit: Royal Engineers 170th Tunnelling Company Date of Death: 13 August 1915 Awards : Military Cross Of Barton Cottage, Barton Road, Cambridge (1915). Mining engineer, LACY, FRANCIS PRIOR, M.C., Capt., West - morland and Cumberland Yeomanry, attd. 170 Coy. Royal Engineers. 8. of Dyson Lacy, Hobart, Tasmania, by his wife, Francis Amelia, dau. of Capt. .1. Irwin. R.N. ; b. Mackay. North Queens- land, Australia. 28 Jan. 1887 ; educ. Stubbing- ton. also Felsted, Essex. England, and the Royal School of Mines. Kensington, London ; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, 14 Oct. 1914. and was killed by a counter mine, 13 Aug. 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches [Iondon Gazette. 23 June, 1915]. and awarded the Military Cross.
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