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COUNT GLEICITEN.

Bor~x 1863.

A PTAIN COUNT | GLIICHEN, of the Crenadier Guards, extra Equerry to the Queen, s the eldest

son of the late Prince Victor of

Hohenlohe and of the youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir George Seymour. Born on the 15th January, 1863, he was cducated first at Cheam, after- wards at - Charterhouse, and fmally at Sandhurst. He was a Queen’s page from 1874 to 1879, and our first portrait is extremely mteresting as showing, what s rarcly scen, the livery of a Royal page. In 1881 he obtained a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Three years later he served with the Guards Camel

Regiment i the Gordon relief

expechition, and took part in all the desert fightine. Return-

g to lingland in July, 1885,

he served two vears in | Yoo ORI

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the Department, 1886-8, and spent another two years, 189o—1, at the Staff College. keen soldier, and has devoted himself to the

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I'rom a Photo. by Mawll & Fox,

study of his profession. In additiontomag-

azine articles and some offi-

cialconfidential works, he 1s the author of a clever, brightly written narra- tive of his expe- ricnces during the Nile Valley Campaign of 1584-5—“With the Camel Corps up the Nile.” He s

likewise the author of “The Armics

of ILurope.”