Edward Tennant

• Born on 1 July 1897
• Son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer.
• Nicknamed ‘Bim’,
• Educated at Winchester College until the age of 17, when it was decided he would lodge with a family in Germany to learn the language, in preparation for the Diplomatic Service.
• When war broke out he found himself free of school and immediately joined the Grenadier Guards. After a year’s training in London he went to Bovington Camp, Marlow in August 1915 where his company of signallers earned distinction.
• Selected to go out to France, although Brigade Orders had just been issued that no one should leave England before nineteen years of age.

He was killed by a sniper during the Battle of the Somme on 22nd September, 1916.

TENNANT, The Hon. EDWARD WYNDHAM

• Rank: Lieutenant
• Date of Death: 22/09/1916
• Age: 19
• Regiment/Service: Grenadier Guards 4th Bn.
• Grave Reference: I. B. 18.
• Cemetery: GUILLEMONT ROAD CEMETERY, GUILLEMONT
• Additional Information: Son of Edward Priaux, 1st Baron Glenconner and Lady Glenconner, (now Viscountess Grey of Falloden). One of the war poets. CWGC

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• First name(s) Edward William
• Last name Tennant
• Year 1914-20
• Service number -
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment Grenadier Guards
• Service record Rank: Lieutenant, Corps: Grenadier Guards
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D5514285
• Country Great Britain
• Medal type British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920
• Archive reference WO372/19

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A wood is being planted in his/Poets' honour, backed by the Woodlands Trust, near Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders - "Poet's Wood" - one of the organisers is Tessa Tennant whose husband is the great nephew of Edward.

Sources, References and Further Reading

• http://warpoets.org.uk/worldwar1/poets-and-poetry/edward-tennant/