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Major the Hon. Robert Hamilton Lindsay, of the Royal
Scots Greys, second son of the late Earl of Crawford and
brother of the present Earl, died at York, 8th December 1911,
after a very brief illness.
Major Lindsay joined the Royal Scots Greys in 1894.
From Edinburgh he went to join the statf of Earl Beauchamp,
the Governor of New South Wales. He left Lord Beauchamp
on hearing of the outbreak of war in South Africa, and pro-
ceeded direct to Cape Town. Arriving simultaneously with
the incoming troopship Ranee, on which were the Greys, he was
with them from the first, and his South African medal has five
bars, i.e., Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Driefontein, Paardeberg,
and Relief of Kimberley. His ankle was broken during opera-
tions on the night before the battle of Nitral's Nek, confining him
to hospital ; and he was invalided home. Put on half pay on
account of this and subsequent illness, he was invited by Lord
Curzon, Viceroy of India, to be his A.D.C. until he was well
enough to rejoin, which position he filled for some months
leaving there to be married to Miss Mary Clarke, daughter of
Sir William Clarke, Bart., whose mother was an Australian
lady of Scottish stock. The Russo-Japanese War was immi-
nent, and as he thought it might be useful to his career to
know the places where fighting might take place, they left
Melbourne after the wedding for Japan. At Thursday Island
they were met by Lord Crawford in his steam yacht Valhalla,
who vainly tried to persuade them to go to England with him,
as war was believed to be imminent, and he did not think a
cavalry officer would be allowed into Russia from Japan, or, if
allowed in, would not be allowed out until the end of the war.
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