AN IMPORTANT GREAT WAR CASUALTY GROUP TO CAPTAIN EUSTON FRANCIS FREDERICK SARTORIUS GRENADIER GUARDS

AN IMPORTANT GREAT WAR CASUALTY GROUP TO CAPTAIN EUSTON FRANCIS FREDERICK SARTORIUS GRENADIER GUARDS. The son of Major General Euston Henry Sartorius VC QSA - Cape Colony and South Africa 1902- Correctly engraved Lieut E F F Sartorius 1914/15 Star - Correctly impressed - Capt E F F Sartorius G GDS (very slight over stamping GDS) returned for an amendment to the surname (full surname corrected) Pair - Capt E F F Sartorius ( returned for an amendment to surname) Surname corrected and last two initials Memorial Plaque to Euston Francis Frederick Sartorius Medals in a contemporary Frame, 1920's / 1930's Condition EF ( Medal index card details amendments / corrections) Captain Euston Francis Frederick Sartorius was born on 22nd March 1882, the son of Major General Euston Henry Sartorius VC. He was educated at Eton and joined the Grenadier Guards aged Eighteen in August 1902. He saw service during the Second Boer War and was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with bars Cape Colony and South Africa 1902. He remained in the Grenadier Guards and was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1904 and Captain in June 1908. In April 1912 he resigned his commission and in the August he was appointed to the Special Reserve. Upon the outbreak of the Great War, he rejoined the Grenadier Guards and landed in France on 18th February 1915 with the 1st Battalion. He sadly died of wounds on 5th April 1915 at The Battle of Neuve Chappell. Sartorius was laid to rest in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.