Archibald Lucas-Tooth

Brothers Captain Selwyn Lucas Lucas-Tooth (born 19 March 1879, Sydney), 3rd Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed in action at Ypres on 20 October 1914;[1] and Captain Douglas Keith Lucas-Tooth (born October 1882, Sydney), 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, died in action in the Battle of Aisne on 14 September 1914.

[2][3][4] Lucas-Tooth married Rosa Mary Bovill on 4 January 1916, at the Holy Trinity church, Brompton Road, London.

On the death of his father on 19 February 1915,[6] he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Lucas-Tooth, of Queen's Gate, Kensington and Kameruka, New South Wales and to the family estate at Holme Lacy.

After a long period of training, and coastal defence duty on an east coast of Scotland, the regiment returned to Salisbury Plains.

He rose to the rank of major, and died on active service of pneumonia on 12 July 1918 at the age of 34.