Arthur Estcourt

Arthur Charles Sotheron Estcourt MC (26 September 1893 – 18 August 1918) was a British soldier of the First World War.

Early life

The son of the Reverend E. W. S. Estcourt, of Swindon, Wiltshire, and a nephew of George Sotheron-Estcourt, 1st Baron Estcourt, Estcourt began his education at Mr C. E. F. Stanford's School, Rottingdean, from where in 1907 he won a Fishmongers' Company Open Scholarship of £50 a year to Gresham's School, Holt, where he remained from 1907 to 1912. He then briefly attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, between 1912 and 1913. In January, 1912, he had been awarded a Magdalene College mathematics scholarship worth £50 a year.

Estcourt's brother, Walter Bucknall Estcourt, served as an officer in the East Africa Corps.

Military career

Estcourt was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the New Armies on 17 November 1914, then as a temporary second lieutenant of the Wiltshire Regiment and later of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

In September 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross, the London Gazette report reading:

He was promoted Acting Captain in the Trench Mortar Battery on 16 February 1917. He then became a Lieutenant (Observer) in the Royal Air Force.

Twice wounded, he was killed in action on 8 August 1918.