Algernon William John Clotworthy Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene and 5th Viscount Ferrard, DSO was a British Army officer and an Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 192
Massereene in 1940
His first wife, the former Jean Barbara Ainsworth
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Major is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines. The rank is superior to captain and subordinate to lieutenant colonel. The insignia for a major is a crown. The equiv
Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene
…was wounded, twice mentioned in despatches (including the final despatch by Lord Kitchener dated 23 June 1902), and for which he was promoted a brevet major on 22 August 1902, and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended June…
c. 1779 portrait of Major Moses Corbet