Charles FitzClarence (8 May 1865-12 November 1914) was a British Army brigadier-general who was killed in action during World War I.
Biography[]
Charles FitzClarence was born in Bishopscourt, County Kildare, Ireland in 1865, the grandson of George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster and a great-grandson of King William IV of Britain. He joined the British Army in 1886 and served in the Royal Fusiliers during the Second Boer War before taking command of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards in 1909. He became a brigadier-general at the outbreak of World War I, and he commanded the 1st Guards' Brigade on the Western Front. He was killed while leading his regiment in a counterattack at Polygon Wood during the First Battle of Ypres.