caption father death_date death_place mother birth_place title birth_date spouse issue image article_title name
prince chakrabongse bhuvanath chulalongkorn 13 june 1920 bangkok , thailand saovabha phongsri bangkok , thailand prince of siam the prince of phitsanulok 3 march 1883 ekaterina princess javalit obhas rabibadhana -lrb- m. 1919 wil . 1920 desnitskaya -rrb- -lrb- m. 1906 dv . 1919 -rrb- chula chakrabongse chakrabongse bhuvanadh.jpg chakrabongse bhuvanath
 chakrabongse bhuvanath
chakrabongse bhuvanath

chakrabongse bhuvanath , prince of phitsanulok , -lrb- ; ; 3 march 1883 -- 13 june 1920 -rrb- , was the 40th child of king chulalongkorn and the fourth child of queen sri bajarindra .
the prince was sent to czarist russia in his teens , where he studied at a page corps .
he returned to siam with a russian wife , catherine na phitsanulok -lrb- yekaterina desnitskaya ; cyrillic : Екатерина Десницкая -rrb- and an honorary commission in a hussar regiment .
the prince and princess had one son , prince chula chakrabongse .
the prince and his wife lived in paruskavan palace in bangkok .
prince chakrabongse served as chief of staff of the royal siamese army until his death at the age of 37 in 1920 .
he and his brother prince purachatra , commander of the army engineers , were instrumental in the development of aviation in the kingdom .
prince chakrabongse is best remembered today as the father of the army 's royal aeronautical service , a forerunner to the royal thai air force .
the prince was a favourite son of both the king and queen .
he represented his father on many foreign visits , such as to the wedding of crown prince wilhelm and crown princess cecilie of prussia , the funeral of king umberto i of italy , and the coronation of king george v and queen mary of great britain in 1911 .
prince chakrabongse died in 1920 at the young age of 37 .
