Additional general notes on the memorial
Noel Lee
The second son of Sir Joseph Lee and his wife Henrietta, and younger brother of Lennox Bertram Lee of How Caple Court. Noel was the first Territorial Army officer to be made a Brigadier-General and had commanded the 6th Bn Manchester Regiment. Commanding a Brigade, he was seriously wounded at Gallipoli on 4th June 1915 and died two weeks later in hospital at Malta where he is buried in the Pieta Cemetery. Aged 47, Noel had already given distinguished service to his country long before the war recognised by the Volunteer Decoration and by appointment as a Deputy Lieutenant for his county.
Noel Esmond Lee
A Captain in the 8th Bn, KRRC, and son of Noel, he was killed aged 20 on 24th August 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele. With 35000 others lost in that battle who have no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Memorial to the Missing at Tyne Cot, the largest CWGC cemetery in the world, at Zonnebeke, Belgium, containing 12000 graves. It is so quiet, one can almost hear Wilfred Owen’s “bugles calling for them from sad shires.”