Herbert Montesole

Lieutenant Herbert Sarif Roy Montesole was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Edmonton, the son of author Max and Emma Drummond Montesole (née Hedley), of Middlesbrough. His father had been born in the Ottoman Empire, according to Max's obituary, to a family related to Imam Shamil that had fled to Turkey after the Caucasian War with Russia.The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry, p. 326.
Montesole was educated at King's College, where he graduated with a B.Sc in 1914. Herbert Sarif Roy Montesole, kingscollections.org. Retrieved 13 July 2015. He was commissioned soon afterwards, in the Royal Sussex Regiment, and went to the Western Front on attachment to the 2nd Yorkshires. Having survived Neuve Chapelle and Fromelles, Montesole was killed by a shell on 17 May 1915, aged 22, in the Battle of Festubert.Lieutenant Montesole, ww1-yorkshires.org.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2015. A brother, Eric, died on the Western Front in March 1916.
He is buried in Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner. 
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Montesole, Herbert Sarif Roy, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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