According to the Scottish War Memorials Project, Col. Lord Desmond’s death occurred thus: «Fr Lane Fox OSB was chaplain to the Irish Guards. He lost his right eye and hand in a bombing accident. He was standing by the Colonel Lord Desmond Fitzgerald watching a bombing practice. The Colonel said „Now Padre, you can have a try“. Fr Lane Fox took a bomb, pulled out the pin and then before the proper time the bomb exploded in his hand, destroying his right eye and hand and killing Lord Desmond Fitzgerald. He also served with the 2nd London Irish of 47th Division and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire». See http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-42305.htmlАрхивная копия от 15 ноября 2016 на Wayback Machine
«Bomb Kills Duke’s Heir: Lord Desmond Fitzgerald Was Experimenting with New Missile», The New York Times, 8 March 1916. The article states that FitzGerald «was experimenting with a new kind of bomb, when it exploded and a fragment struck him in the head. He was taken to a hospital and died an hour later». According to Rudyard Kipling (http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/IrishGuardsv1/1916salientsomme.htmlАрхивная копия от 26 августа 2018 на Wayback Machine), FitzGerald «was so severely wounded that he died within an hour at the Millicent Sutherland (No. 9. Red Cross Hospital). Lieutenant T. E. G. Nugent was dangerously wounded at the same time through the liver, though he did not realise this at the time, and stayed coolly in charge of a party till help came. Lieutenant Hanbury, who was conducting the practice, was wounded in the hand and leg, and Father Lane-Fox lost an eye and some fingers. Lord Desmond FitzGerald was buried in the public cemetery at Calais on the 5th. As he himself had expressly desired, there was no formal parade, but the whole Battalion, of which he was next for the command, lined the road to his grave. His passion and his loyalty had been given to the Battalion without thought of self, and among many sad things few are sadder than to see the record of his unceasing activities and care since he had been second in command cut across by the curt announcement of his death. It was a little thing that his name had been at the time submitted for a well-deserved D.S.O.»
«Bomb Kills Duke’s Heir: Lord Desmond Fitzgerald Was Experimenting with New Missile», The New York Times, 8 March 1916. The article states that FitzGerald «was experimenting with a new kind of bomb, when it exploded and a fragment struck him in the head. He was taken to a hospital and died an hour later». According to Rudyard Kipling (http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/IrishGuardsv1/1916salientsomme.htmlАрхивная копия от 26 августа 2018 на Wayback Machine), FitzGerald «was so severely wounded that he died within an hour at the Millicent Sutherland (No. 9. Red Cross Hospital). Lieutenant T. E. G. Nugent was dangerously wounded at the same time through the liver, though he did not realise this at the time, and stayed coolly in charge of a party till help came. Lieutenant Hanbury, who was conducting the practice, was wounded in the hand and leg, and Father Lane-Fox lost an eye and some fingers. Lord Desmond FitzGerald was buried in the public cemetery at Calais on the 5th. As he himself had expressly desired, there was no formal parade, but the whole Battalion, of which he was next for the command, lined the road to his grave. His passion and his loyalty had been given to the Battalion without thought of self, and among many sad things few are sadder than to see the record of his unceasing activities and care since he had been second in command cut across by the curt announcement of his death. It was a little thing that his name had been at the time submitted for a well-deserved D.S.O.»
According to the Scottish War Memorials Project, Col. Lord Desmond’s death occurred thus: «Fr Lane Fox OSB was chaplain to the Irish Guards. He lost his right eye and hand in a bombing accident. He was standing by the Colonel Lord Desmond Fitzgerald watching a bombing practice. The Colonel said „Now Padre, you can have a try“. Fr Lane Fox took a bomb, pulled out the pin and then before the proper time the bomb exploded in his hand, destroying his right eye and hand and killing Lord Desmond Fitzgerald. He also served with the 2nd London Irish of 47th Division and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire». See http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-42305.htmlАрхивная копия от 15 ноября 2016 на Wayback Machine
