Английская Википедия:Euan Lucie-Smith
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Euan Lucie-Smith (14 December 1889 – 25 April 1915) was a British Army second lieutenant of World War I, of mixed British and Afro-Caribbean descent.
He was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment,Шаблон:Efn and the first killed in World War I.
Early life
Lucie-Smith was born on 14 December 1889 at Cross Roads, St Andrew, Jamaica, the younger son of Catherine, the granddaughterШаблон:Efn of Samuel Constantine Burke, a lawyer and politician referred to as "coloured"; and John Barkley Lucie-Smith,Шаблон:Efn a white colonial civil servant who was Postmaster of Jamaica.[1][2][3] His grandfather was John Lucie-Smith, Chief Justice of Jamaica, and an uncle was Alfred Lucie-Smith;Шаблон:Efn[4] the art critic Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933) is his nephew.
He was educated at Berkhamsted School, and then Eastbourne College, both private schools in England.[2]
On 10 November 1911, he enrolled in the Jamaica Militia Artillery, as a commissioned officer.[2] His father had commanded the Militia Artillery.[4]
Military career and death
Six weeks into the First World War, Lucie-Smith joined the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a second lieutenant, announced in the London Gazette on 30 November 1914, with seniority to others from Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and New Zealand.[2][5][6] He travelled to England in December 1914, and undertook training on the Isle of Wight.[7] He then went to France on 17 March 1915, and was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on 25 April 1915, age 25.[2][5] A witness said he was shot through the head, but his body was never found.[2] He was the first-known mixed-heritage officer killed in the war and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium and on the memorials at Berkhamsted School and Eastbourne College.[2][5]
Memorial Plaque
Lucie-Smith's story came to renewed public attention after his Memorial Plaque was purchased by James Carver in August 2020.[2][8] In researching Lucie-Smith, Carver realised from a photograph that he didn't appear to be white.[2] Carver put the plaque up for auction in November 2020, when it was sold to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) for a hammer price £8,500,Шаблон:Efn[9] a record price for such plaques.[8]
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