Captain Clement Edward Gresham LEVESON-GOWER Order of Saint Sava 5th Class (Serbia), Order of t
General List, Military Train Conductor in France

Date of birth: 28th December 1876
Date of death: 20th June 1939

Died aged 62
Buried at St James' Church, Titsey, Surrey
Clement Edward Gresham Leveson-Gower was born at Titsey Place on the 28th of December 1876 the youngest son of Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower, MP for Reigate 1863 to 1866, and Sophia (nee Leigh) Leveson-Gower of the Titsey Estate in Surrey. He was christened at St James' Church, Titsey on the 11th of February 1877.

He was educated at Hazelwood School and then at Winchester College where he was in Bramston’s House from January 1891 to 1895.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on the 14th of March 1900. He transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry on the 13th of October 1900 and served with them in the South African War from 1901 to 1902 where he was awarded the campaign medal with five clasps. He resigned his commission on the grounds of ill health on the 11th of October 1902.

In 1905 he was appointed as Comptroller of the Household of his Excellency Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada.

On the outbreak of the Great War was appointed to Temporary Captain on the 3rd of October 1914 and landed in France the same day. He worked on railway transport as an Assistant Military Landing Officer and was awarded the Serbian Order of Saint Sava 5th Class on the 1st of July 1916. He was appointed as an Aide De Camp on the 24th of December 1916. Later in the war he acted as an interpreter in Corfu aiding expatriated Serbians. He came home on leave in October 1918 and from the 20th of November 1918 was Assistant Military Attaché to Lord Derby, the British Ambassador in Paris, being concerned with the interests of the Czecho-Slovaks.

He resigned his commission on the 31st of May 1919, retaining the rank of Captain and lived at “Hookwood” in Limpsfield.

He died after a long illness and never married. His funeral took place at 3pm on the 23rd of June 1939.
Went on to Winchester College

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