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Updated: June 24, 2025
Lance, at seven-and-twenty spare and soldierly, alive to the finger-tips was his father in replica, even to the V.C. after his name, which he had 'snaffled out of the War, together with a Croix de Guerre and a brevet-Majority.
Two of the Duke's half-brothers were engaged in the South African war; Lord Charles Bentinck was a Lieutenant in the 9th Lancers and was slightly wounded in the siege of Mafeking; for his services he won a medal and a brevet-majority. He was born in 1868 and was educated at Eton; he married in 1897 a daughter of Mr. Charles Seymour Grenfell of Taplow.
I may say they appear to me to be perfectly valid, as an occurrence took place upon which it was impossible for Captain Peters to calculate, when he gave them." James then finished the report of his proceedings, and General Wolfe expressed his great satisfaction at the result. "I will put you in orders, tomorrow, for your brevet-majority," he said; "and never was the rank more honourably earned."
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