David Thompson has submitted the following:-
Born on 26 October 1877, the only surviving son of the Right Honorable Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, KT, PC, JP, DL, FRS, FRGS, 7th Baronet, of Monreith, Wigtownshire, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Fletcher-Campbell, of Boquhan, Stirling, Scotland.
Maxwell’s mother died on 3 September 1910.
Educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Married, in 1909, Lady Mary Percy, daughter of Henry George, 7th Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC, FRS and his wife, Lady Edith Campbell, eldest daughter of George, 8th Duke of Argyll, KG, KT, PC.
Maxwell and Lady Mary had four children: Christian (b. July 1910); Aymer (b. December 1911); Eustace (b. February 1913); and Gavin (b. July 1914).
He was a JP, DL, and County Councillor for Wigtownshire, a Director of Crichton Royal Institution, and author of various works and articles on sporting subjects.
Entered the Grenadier Guards in September 1897, being promoted Lieutenant in 1899 and Captain in June 1904.
Maxwell served in the South African War, taking part in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont and Enslin, for which he received the Queen's medal with clasp. Invalided home 1900.
When he retired from the active list with the rank of Captain, he entered the Reserve of Officers in September 1907, and was appointed Captain in Lovat's Scouts Yeomanry in November 1910.
On mobilisation, August 1914, Maxwell immediately re-joined the Grenadier Guards, and subsequently volunteered for service as Adjutant and second-in-command in the newly-formed Royal Naval Division. He received a temporary commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marines ('London Gazette', 10 November, 1914; N.B. After his death), in September 1914, with command of Collingwood Battalion, then in camp at Walmer, and with it accompanied the expedition to Antwerp.
After four days of ceaseless exertion with little sleep, Maxwell was wounded in the head by the first shell of the bombardment of 8 October, and died the following day in the Military Hospital at Antwerp. He was buried in the garden there.
The General Officer Commanding the Brigade wrote:
'His death is a severe loss to my Brigade. I personally have lost a friend, the whole Brigade has lost one of its finest officers. His energy, earnestness and singleness of purpose inspired the whole Battalion, and both his officers and men were animated by his fine spirit from the moment he assumed command of them.'
His death is reported in the Alnwick and County Gazette 17/10/1914
Aymer Edward Maxwell is not remembered on a local War Memorial.
