Lt. HRH Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891-1914), the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria and a first cousin to George V, died at Ypres on 27 October 1914. He was also a first cousin (twice removed) of the present Duke of Edinburgh. He served in the British Expeditionary Force in the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. At the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, the first battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps crossed from Zonnebeke to Broodseinde to stop the German infantry on the Keiberg. Prince Maurice was a lieutenant commanding the second division [?] of the battalion. As soon as all the troops had crossed, the enemy opened fire from their position on the Keiberg. The prince was mortally wounded by shrapnel and died on the field before his men could take him to safety. At Princess Beatrice's request, he was buried among his men in the Ypres Town Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. A monument dedicated to his memory was erected at the Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore in 1917.
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