Eric Thesiger

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Eric Richard Thesiger DSO, TD (17 February 1874 – 2 October 1961),[1] styled The Honourable from 1878, was a British soldier and page to Queen Victoria.

[1][3] Thesiger was educated at Winchester College and in 1884 he was nominated Page of Honour to the Queen, a post he fulfilled for the following six years.

[7] He stayed in South Africa until the war ended in June 1902, left Port Elizabeth for Southampton on the SS Colombian the following month,[8] and relinquished his commission in the Imperial Yeomanry on 3 September 1902, when he was granted the honorary rank of captain in the Army.

In September Thesiger and C Sqn joined 10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea), where he became second-in-command.

[13][14][15] Shortly afterwards he was transferred to a battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps,[14] but rejoined 10th Queen's as its temporary commander after the German spring offensive.