Brevet Lieut.-Col. Cecil Edward Keith-Falconer,psc, 1st Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action near Belmont on Nov. 10th 1899, in the reconnaissance made by Col. Gough, 9th Lancers.

He was the eldest son of the late Major the Hon. Charles J. Keith-Falconer, late of the 2nd Life Guards and the grandson of the seventh Earl of Kintore.

Lieut.-Col. Keith-Falconer was born in Oct. 1860, educated at Charterhouse, and joined the Northumberland Fusiliers from the Militia Jan. 1883. He became Capt. 1892 and passed through the Staff College in 1895, with honours, and in the competition for entrance was at the head of the list of candidates.

He served with the 13th Soudanese Batt. in the Dongola Expeditionary Force in 1896, being mentioned in despatches; and acted as Brigade-Major at the engagements of Abu Hamed, Berber, Atbara and the Battle of Omdurman. In recognition of these services he was three times mentioned in despatches, and promoted to a Brevet Majority Dec. 1897, and to the rank of Brevet Lieut.-Col. Nov. 1898.

He acted as ADC to Lord Loch, when Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Victoria 1887-89 and subsequently at the Cape of Good Hope, 1889. Lieut.-Col. Keith Falconer went to South Africa in Oct. 1899. He is buried in the cemetery at Orange River.
From ‘The Last Post’, Mildred G. Dooner, published 1903.

Acknowledgments: Colin Boyd

Cecil Edward Keith-Falconer is remembered in Newcastle on NUT017.