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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Sextus_Tollemache
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (/ˈtuːlmeɪk ˈtɒlmæk/ TOOL-mayk-TOL-mak; 10 June 1884 – 20 February 1917) was a captain in the British Army who died during the First World War.[1] He has been stated, incorrectly, to have had the longest English surname on record,[2] or the English surname with the most multiple barrels.[3] His last name is the double-barrelled "Tollemache-Tollemache"; his other names (including the first instance of "Tollemache-Tollemache") are forenames[citation needed] which have been mistaken by some chroniclers as part of his last name.
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (/ˈtuːlmeɪk ˈtɒlmæk/ TOOL-mayk-TOL-mak; 10 June 1884 – 20 February 1917) was a captain in the British Army who died during the First World War.[1] He has been stated, incorrectly, to have had the longest English surname on record,[2] or the English surname with the most multiple barrels.[3] His last name is the double-barrelled "Tollemache-Tollemache"; his other names (including the first instance of "Tollemache-Tollemache") are forenames[citation needed] which have been mistaken by some chroniclers as part of his last name.
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Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that June 10 is the anniversary of the birth of British Army Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache who presumably died 20 February 1917 in The Great War after WWII became known as WWI]. He has no known grave.
My paternal grandfather and his brother served in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France and Belgium after serving in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16.
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1. Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache 1899 (By kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Keble College, Oxford.)
2. Dapper Leone Sextus Tollemache
3. Menin Gate Memorial Ypyes, Belgium. Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres. He has no known grave.
Background from hamremembers.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/leo-de-orellana-tollemache-tollemache-1879-1914/
Captain Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache, 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, was a professional soldier in the Regular Army. He was the sixth son of the second marriage of the Reverend Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache, a clergyman who distinguished himself by the steadily increasing strings of names bestowed upon his fifteen children, and by his doubling his surname to Tollemache-Tollemache in 1876, three years before Leo’s birth.
Leo was born on 19 November 1879 at South Witham, near Grantham in Lincolnshire and was given the Christian names Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet. Add to this string the surname Tollemache-Tollemache, and it is hardly surprising that in 1908, he abbreviated it, by Deed Poll, to Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache. His retention of ‘de Orellana’ was perhaps a gesture to his mother, Dora Cleopatra Maria Lorenza de Orellana.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Leo’s younger brother—who, in practice, abbreviated his name to Leone Sextus Tollemache—was the most afflicted child of that marriage. The annual credited him with having had the longest English surname, or the mostly multiply-barrelled English surname (in its 1974 and 1997 editions respectively).
Apart from his family connection with the Manors of Petersham and Ham, it is not clear why Leo’s name appears on this war memorial. As his brother, Leone Sextus, who also died on active service, is not commemorated on the Ham Memorial, it is possible his wife had links to the parish, either before, during or immediately after the war. Leo was a third cousin of Arthur Henry William Tollemache, who is commemorated on this memorial as well as on the Petersham Memorial, and he was relatively close in age to his second cousin, Felix Hanbury Tracy, whose parents were influential members of the Ham War Memorial Committee. Leo was also a half-uncle of John Eadred Tollemache, whose father was eventually to inherit the Dysart Estate.
Leo matriculated at Keble College, Oxford in 1899, rowing for the college in 1901 and 1902. While at Keble, he served as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, his transfer to the Lincolnshire Regiment being ‘gazetted’ in 1901. He served this regiment until his death, by which time he had reached the rank of Captain.
Leo Tollemache and Jessie Winifred Bryant were married in the Parish Church of St Augustine, Highbury in 1906. There were four children of the marriage: Eve (b. 1908), Gerald (1909–1911), Frederick (b. 1910) and Robert (b. 1914).
Leo’s battalion was mobilised on 4 August, departing from Portsmouth on 13 August on the Union Castle liner Norman. Fortunately for Leo, as his youngest son, Robert, was only six weeks old, he was not required to embark with his regiment immediately until, following the regiment’s early losses, reinforcements were dispatched in early October. Three weeks after his arrival in Flanders, he was reported wounded and missing.
The War Diary for the Battalion describes the disastrous events on the day of Leo’s death when the men of the battalion were placed in what they described as an “untenable” situation leaving them with no alternative to making “a bolt for it,” having been led into a trap by an enemy hoax and subsequently exposed on all sides, including to ‘friendly fire’ from their own artillery.
“At about 1.30am a hurried order was received that the Batt[alio]n was to march to WYTSCHAETE to retake it. (This village had previously been held by our Cavalry but the advance of a German Division had compelled them to withdraw.) On the arrival of the B[attalio]n at about ¼ mile from this place they were met by the Cavalry General who ordered us to attack at once. B[attalio]n deployed on the right of the REMMEL– WYTSCHAETE Road and advanced in two lines. On reaching the Railway Cutting which lies towards the S.W. of the village the B[attalio]n were fired [sic] by people whom we thought to be native troops. They called out several Hindustani words. We soon discovered our mistake by men going forward to interrogate them was [sic] shot dead several of the party having entered on the cutting on our Right fired down into the thick mass of our men many were killed and wounded here. We were then withdrawn about 100 yards to await the support of the 5th Fusiliers who were to come up on the left. The Germans meanwhile were entertaining themselves & singing & smirking. At the [expected?] time of arrival of the 5th Fusiliers on our left an order came from General SHAW to push the attack. The Colonel ordered us to charge the Railway Cutting in front. The B[attalio]n advanced under a heavy fire within a few paces of the trenches wh[ich?] owing to someone giving the order to retire the men fell back[;] this order probably originated from the Germans. What remained of the B[attalio]n lined up [sic] a little ridge of ground separating a fallow field of ground from one of turnips and about 100 yards from the position so strongly held by the enemy. Behind us at a distance of about 150 yards from a hedge row [sic] behind which a fold in the ground promised a certain amount of cover. To our left rear the country was absolutely open except for a thin ^[thorn?]^ fence this however was to [word illegible: form? become?] a death trap. [Here three words vigorously struck through but legible as “for 1 ½ hours”] Until about 6.45 am we lay behind this ridge. As dawn broke we saw the people on our left retiring and in order to cover them & the retirement of the London Scottish on our right, we hung on. Germans worked round out left flank and we were fired at by our own Artillery in rear by their guns in front by riflemen on both flanks. The place became absolutely untenable and our only chance was to make a bolt for it. On Colonel Smith giving the word we got up and ran for our lives towards the dip. The enemy opening a murderous fire but probably owing to surprise & excitement a great many of their shots went high and many of us succeeded in reaching shelter. In this place the men were roughly formed up into a line as we now had to cross a long [glacier?] like slope. On emerging from cover we again came under heavy fire but suffered very few casualties.
The remnants of the Reg[imen]t were formed up by the Colonel & the Adjutant on the Eastern side of the village LINDENHOEK. Here we were joined by three other Special Reserve Officers ^& about 100 men^ who had managed to escape. At this time the B[attalio]n numbered 175. While the engagement was in progress two urgent messages were sent back asking for support. The first man was killed before he had gone 20 yards & the second man Private [Space of several inches presumably left blank with the intention of finding out and inserting his name] although twice hit displayed the greater gallantry & devotion by struggling on and making his way to the General. Later on the Regiment were put in trenches on MONT KEMMEL & in the evening were withdrawn & went into billets near LA CLYTTE. Here we were joined by reinforcements of 91 men under 2 Lieut SHAW 3rd B[attalio]n Sherwood Foresters.
Casualties:
Officers [Captain KING 2 Lieut BARNES 2 Lieut LEE] Killed. [Captain JOHNSON ^ & 2 Lieut HAYTHER^] Severely wounded. Colonel SMITH Slightly wounded. Major BARLOW & Captain TOLLEMACHE Wounded & missing. Other Ranks [This left blank.]”
It is clear from this account that survivors were able to report that Leo had been wounded and was missing. In time, his family would have learnt that he had not been taken prisoner. The resting place of his body is unknown.
One can only imagine the wide-ranging effect of his death on his widow and three surviving children, the youngest only a few months old.
Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres. He has no known grave.
Sources
Keble College, Roll of Honour 1914–1918, ‘Captain Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache’, http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/past/keble-and-the-great-war/roll-of-honour-1914-1918/captain-leo-quintus-tollemache-tollemache-de-orellana-plantagenet-tollemache-1899, accessed 31/10/2014
The National Archives, WO 95/1429/3, War Diary of 1/Lincolnshire Regiment, 1 November 1914
The photograph of Leo Tollemache is used by permission of the Warden and Fellows of Keble College, Oxford."
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My paternal grandfather and his brother served in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France and Belgium after serving in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16.
Image:
1. Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache 1899 (By kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Keble College, Oxford.)
2. Dapper Leone Sextus Tollemache
3. Menin Gate Memorial Ypyes, Belgium. Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres. He has no known grave.
Background from hamremembers.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/leo-de-orellana-tollemache-tollemache-1879-1914/
Captain Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache, 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, was a professional soldier in the Regular Army. He was the sixth son of the second marriage of the Reverend Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache, a clergyman who distinguished himself by the steadily increasing strings of names bestowed upon his fifteen children, and by his doubling his surname to Tollemache-Tollemache in 1876, three years before Leo’s birth.
Leo was born on 19 November 1879 at South Witham, near Grantham in Lincolnshire and was given the Christian names Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet. Add to this string the surname Tollemache-Tollemache, and it is hardly surprising that in 1908, he abbreviated it, by Deed Poll, to Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache. His retention of ‘de Orellana’ was perhaps a gesture to his mother, Dora Cleopatra Maria Lorenza de Orellana.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Leo’s younger brother—who, in practice, abbreviated his name to Leone Sextus Tollemache—was the most afflicted child of that marriage. The annual credited him with having had the longest English surname, or the mostly multiply-barrelled English surname (in its 1974 and 1997 editions respectively).
Apart from his family connection with the Manors of Petersham and Ham, it is not clear why Leo’s name appears on this war memorial. As his brother, Leone Sextus, who also died on active service, is not commemorated on the Ham Memorial, it is possible his wife had links to the parish, either before, during or immediately after the war. Leo was a third cousin of Arthur Henry William Tollemache, who is commemorated on this memorial as well as on the Petersham Memorial, and he was relatively close in age to his second cousin, Felix Hanbury Tracy, whose parents were influential members of the Ham War Memorial Committee. Leo was also a half-uncle of John Eadred Tollemache, whose father was eventually to inherit the Dysart Estate.
Leo matriculated at Keble College, Oxford in 1899, rowing for the college in 1901 and 1902. While at Keble, he served as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, his transfer to the Lincolnshire Regiment being ‘gazetted’ in 1901. He served this regiment until his death, by which time he had reached the rank of Captain.
Leo Tollemache and Jessie Winifred Bryant were married in the Parish Church of St Augustine, Highbury in 1906. There were four children of the marriage: Eve (b. 1908), Gerald (1909–1911), Frederick (b. 1910) and Robert (b. 1914).
Leo’s battalion was mobilised on 4 August, departing from Portsmouth on 13 August on the Union Castle liner Norman. Fortunately for Leo, as his youngest son, Robert, was only six weeks old, he was not required to embark with his regiment immediately until, following the regiment’s early losses, reinforcements were dispatched in early October. Three weeks after his arrival in Flanders, he was reported wounded and missing.
The War Diary for the Battalion describes the disastrous events on the day of Leo’s death when the men of the battalion were placed in what they described as an “untenable” situation leaving them with no alternative to making “a bolt for it,” having been led into a trap by an enemy hoax and subsequently exposed on all sides, including to ‘friendly fire’ from their own artillery.
“At about 1.30am a hurried order was received that the Batt[alio]n was to march to WYTSCHAETE to retake it. (This village had previously been held by our Cavalry but the advance of a German Division had compelled them to withdraw.) On the arrival of the B[attalio]n at about ¼ mile from this place they were met by the Cavalry General who ordered us to attack at once. B[attalio]n deployed on the right of the REMMEL– WYTSCHAETE Road and advanced in two lines. On reaching the Railway Cutting which lies towards the S.W. of the village the B[attalio]n were fired [sic] by people whom we thought to be native troops. They called out several Hindustani words. We soon discovered our mistake by men going forward to interrogate them was [sic] shot dead several of the party having entered on the cutting on our Right fired down into the thick mass of our men many were killed and wounded here. We were then withdrawn about 100 yards to await the support of the 5th Fusiliers who were to come up on the left. The Germans meanwhile were entertaining themselves & singing & smirking. At the [expected?] time of arrival of the 5th Fusiliers on our left an order came from General SHAW to push the attack. The Colonel ordered us to charge the Railway Cutting in front. The B[attalio]n advanced under a heavy fire within a few paces of the trenches wh[ich?] owing to someone giving the order to retire the men fell back[;] this order probably originated from the Germans. What remained of the B[attalio]n lined up [sic] a little ridge of ground separating a fallow field of ground from one of turnips and about 100 yards from the position so strongly held by the enemy. Behind us at a distance of about 150 yards from a hedge row [sic] behind which a fold in the ground promised a certain amount of cover. To our left rear the country was absolutely open except for a thin ^[thorn?]^ fence this however was to [word illegible: form? become?] a death trap. [Here three words vigorously struck through but legible as “for 1 ½ hours”] Until about 6.45 am we lay behind this ridge. As dawn broke we saw the people on our left retiring and in order to cover them & the retirement of the London Scottish on our right, we hung on. Germans worked round out left flank and we were fired at by our own Artillery in rear by their guns in front by riflemen on both flanks. The place became absolutely untenable and our only chance was to make a bolt for it. On Colonel Smith giving the word we got up and ran for our lives towards the dip. The enemy opening a murderous fire but probably owing to surprise & excitement a great many of their shots went high and many of us succeeded in reaching shelter. In this place the men were roughly formed up into a line as we now had to cross a long [glacier?] like slope. On emerging from cover we again came under heavy fire but suffered very few casualties.
The remnants of the Reg[imen]t were formed up by the Colonel & the Adjutant on the Eastern side of the village LINDENHOEK. Here we were joined by three other Special Reserve Officers ^& about 100 men^ who had managed to escape. At this time the B[attalio]n numbered 175. While the engagement was in progress two urgent messages were sent back asking for support. The first man was killed before he had gone 20 yards & the second man Private [Space of several inches presumably left blank with the intention of finding out and inserting his name] although twice hit displayed the greater gallantry & devotion by struggling on and making his way to the General. Later on the Regiment were put in trenches on MONT KEMMEL & in the evening were withdrawn & went into billets near LA CLYTTE. Here we were joined by reinforcements of 91 men under 2 Lieut SHAW 3rd B[attalio]n Sherwood Foresters.
Casualties:
Officers [Captain KING 2 Lieut BARNES 2 Lieut LEE] Killed. [Captain JOHNSON ^ & 2 Lieut HAYTHER^] Severely wounded. Colonel SMITH Slightly wounded. Major BARLOW & Captain TOLLEMACHE Wounded & missing. Other Ranks [This left blank.]”
It is clear from this account that survivors were able to report that Leo had been wounded and was missing. In time, his family would have learnt that he had not been taken prisoner. The resting place of his body is unknown.
One can only imagine the wide-ranging effect of his death on his widow and three surviving children, the youngest only a few months old.
Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres. He has no known grave.
Sources
Keble College, Roll of Honour 1914–1918, ‘Captain Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache’, http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/past/keble-and-the-great-war/roll-of-honour-1914-1918/captain-leo-quintus-tollemache-tollemache-de-orellana-plantagenet-tollemache-1899, accessed 31/10/2014
The National Archives, WO 95/1429/3, War Diary of 1/Lincolnshire Regiment, 1 November 1914
The photograph of Leo Tollemache is used by permission of the Warden and Fellows of Keble College, Oxford."
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