Second Lieutenant Richard Nugent
Scots Guards
Age 30
Killed in action 18 December 1914
Son of the late Hon. Richard Nugent, of Stacumny, Celbridge, Co. Kildare; grandson of the 9th Earl of Westmeath.
He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Nugent was killed with many others on an attack on German positions in December 1914. Fatally wounded he was taken into the German front line trench and treated, but subsequently died.
Following the attack an offer by the German troops to allow the Scots Guards to collect the bodies of those killed in the attack sparked a Christmas truce.
At the age of 30 he must have been rather old for a second lieutenant, especially in a regular army battalion.
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