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Alexander
Earl of Athlone

1874-1957

   
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections
    Links
 
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Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George (Cambridge)
birth: 1874.04.14 at Kensington Palace, London
father:   Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, 1st Duke of Teck
mother:   Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth, Duchess of Teck
marriage: 1904.02.10 Princess Alice of Albany (H.R.H. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone)
at St George's Chapel, Windsor
children: 1906 Princess May Helen Emma of Teck (Lady May Abel Smith)
  1907 Prince Rupert Alexander George of Teck, Viscount Trematon (d.1928)
  1910 Prince Maurice Francis George of Teck (d.1910)
death: 1957.01.16 at Kensington Palace, London
(bur. Frogmore,
Windsor Great Park, Berks.)
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
Titles:
  1874.04.14 H.S.H. Prince Alexander of Teck
  1917.07.14 relinquished all his German styles and titles, and adopted the surname of Cambridge
  1917.07.16 Earl of Athlone, and Viscount Tremarton in the Peerage of the U.K.
     
British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
  1897 Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal
  1900.11.29 DSO
  1902.08.09 King Edward VII Coronation Medal
  1904.02.10 GCVO
  1911.06.19 King George V Coronation Medal
  1911.06.19 GCB (civ)
  1923.11.06 GCMG (Grand Master and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George 1936-1957)
  1928.04.17 KG
  1929.07.19 GCStJ
  1931.06.29 PC
  1935.01.01 Royal Victorian Chain
  1935.05.06 King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
  1937.05.11 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal
  1953.06.02 Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
  1904.02.10 Grand Cross, the Order of Civil Merit (Waldeck)
  1904.02.10 Knight Grand Cross, the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
  1904.02.10 Grand Cross, the Order of the Wurttemberg Crown (Wurttemburg)
  1904.02.10 Grand Cross, the Ducal Saxe-Ernestine House Order (Coburg)
  1908.11.17 Commander Grand Cross, the Royal Order of the North Star (Sweden)
  1911.12.02 Knight, the Most Illustrious Order of Maha Chakri (Thailand)
  1912.04.04 Grand Cross, the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
    Grand Cross, the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
    Grand Officer, the Order of the Legion of Honour (French Republic)
    Knight, the Order of St Anne, 1st class with swords (Russia)
  1936.12.31 Knight Grand Cross, the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands)
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
1924.05.03 Colonel, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
1927.01.28 Colonel-in-Chief, Umvoti Mounted Rifles [terminated 1961]
1930.10.24 Colonel-in-Chief, The Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles [terminated 1961]
1934.03.03 Honorary Colonel, University of London OTC
1936.05.15 Colonel, The Life Guards and Goldstick-in-Waiting
1938.12.20 Honorary Air Commodore, No 907/908 (County of Middlesex) (Balloon) Squadron, RAuxAF [to 1949]
1940.06.02 Honorary Colonel, The Governor-General's Horse Guards [to 1946]
1940.06.02 Honorary Colonel, The Governor-General's Foot Guards [to 1946]
 
   Military Service
  Royal Military College Sandhurst
1894.04.14 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
1896 Matabele campaign (MID 9 Mar. 1897, medal)
  attached to 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
1899-1902 South African War (MID 16 Apr. 1901, rcvd: DSO, Queen's Medal 5 clasps)
1899.06.26 Lieutenant, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
1900.02.20 Captain, 7th Queen's Own Hussars
1904.09.03 transferred to The Royal Horse Guards
1911.01.12 Major, 2nd Life Guards
1914-1918 First World War (MID twice, 1914 Star, British War & Allied Victory medals, GC Order of Leopold of Belgium, Croix de Guerre, GO Legion of Honour of France, Knt. 1st class with swords of the Order of St Anne of Russia)
1915.01.12 brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Life Guards
1918.01.07 Brigadier-General, General Staff, British Mission to Belgian GHQ
  1919.01.01 Personal Aide-de-Camp to the King
  1919.06.03 brevet Colonel
  1922.03.01 Colonel, Reserve of Officers
  1923.12.01 Honorary Major-General
1923.11.21 Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of South Africa and High Commissioner for Southern Africa [to 1930]
1940.06.02 Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada [to 1946]
 
   Other Military Connections
1931 Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle
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