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Major Julian BACCHUS
C Company, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment Date of birth: 21st February 1881 Date of death: 14th October 1945 Died aged 64 Unknown
Julian Bacchus was born at Betchworth in Surrey on the 21st of February 1881 the eldest son of Colonel Robert Sidney Bacchus, 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment (Militia), and Jesse Norah (nee Hatfeild) Bacchus of Little Winters, Uplyme in Devon. He was christened at St Michael's Church Betchworth on the 19th of April 1881. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1894 where he was the leading bowler in the unbeaten Cricket XI of 1893. He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Brougham’s House, from September 1894 to 1897. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment (Militia) on the 25th of April 1900 and later passed the examination of Militia officers for a commission in the regular forces. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment on the 4th of January 1901. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 10th of July 1903 and to Captain on the 11th of December 1909. He was seconded to the West Africa Regiment from the 7th of March 1903 to 1904. He was placed on half pay due to ill health on the 4th of October 1905. He was the runner up in the Army Lawn Tennis Championships of 1910 and was seconded as Superintendent of Gymnasia at Aldershot on the 1st of September 1913. He was recalled to his regiment on the outbreak of war and was promoted to Captain on the 5th of August 1914. He sailed with his battalion for France on board the “Braemar Castle”, landing at St Nazaire at 10am on the 10th of September 1914. The battalion was involved in heavy fighting around Rue Du Bois at the end of October but the German attacks petered out on the 31st of October and trench warfare settled in. The battalion was holding positions at the Chemical Works at Rue Du Boise when Julian Bacchus was wounded on the night of the 24th of October 1914. He was evacuated back to England On the 13th of February 1915 he was seconded as Superintendent of Gymnasia and Bayonet Training once more. On the 21st of May 1917 he was promoted to temporary Major and to Major on the 22nd of October 1917. In April 1918 the Hazelnut reported that he:-“has been supervising physical and bayonet training for the B.E.F. in Egypt”.He left this post on the 13th of February 1919 and became Officer Commanding the Glen Parva Barracks in Leicester. On the 19th of May 1919 he joined the cadre which returned from France for a civic reception in the City of Leicester, where the men were entertained to speeches and tea at the Town Hall before marching back to barracks at Glen Parva. He left the army on the 16th of October 1919 due to ill health caused by the wounds he had received in the early days of the war; he was mentioned in despatches. He resigned his commission on the 16th of July 1921. He was married to Eveline (nee Goldie-Taubman), the younger sister of Gerald Goldie-Taubman, on the 4th of August 1908, in the private chapel of her family home, The Nunnery at Braddan on the Isle of Man; the service was taken by the Reverend Wilfred J. Stanton. They had a son, Robert Julian, born on the 4th of August 1910, and a daughter, Joan Mary, born on the 18th of May 1914. The marriage ended in divorce on the 8th of February 1933. He was re-married at Lausanne in Switzerland on the 10th of January 1929 to Daphne (nee Taubman-Goldie). He died suddenly at "Harlyn", Churston in South Devon.

Went on to Wellington College