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Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ( ; 10 June 1884 – 20 February 1917) was a
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in the
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who died during the
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Biography

Leone was born in
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, the sixth son of the eccentric clergyman Ralph Tollemache-Tollemache. He was the eighth of Ralph's many children by his second wife, Dora Cleopatra Maria Lorenza de Orellana. His father gave him, in common with his many brothers and sisters, an unconventional name.K. D. Reynolds, "Tollemache, Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache- (1826–1895)",
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His surname at birth was "Tollemache-Tollemache", his father having doubled his original surname, "Tollemache", in 1876 after his second marriage. "de Orellana" derives from the naming customs of Spain, where his mother came from, and is a forename rather than part of his surname. The first "Tollemache-Tollemache" also seems to be an unusual forename. Leone was Ralph's sixth son, hence "Sextus". "Fraudatifilius" is
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for "son of the defrauded one". "Leone" repeats a pattern seen in the names of his elder brothers and sisters (Lyonel, Lyonesse, Lyulph, Lyona, Leo, Lyonella and Lyonetta). His first five initials, "LSD OF", may include a reference to the divisions of the pre-decimal British currency,
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, for pounds, shillings, and pence followed by half-pence (''ob.'', " obol") and farthings (''i.e.'', quarter-pence). This may be a reference to a financial dispute between his father Ralph and Ralph's first wife's trustees which had driven him bankrupt in 1863. Similarly, an elder brother was named Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache—his first 15 initials spell "LYONEL THE SECOND". In practise, Leone shortened his name to "Leone Sextus Tollemache". He joined the British Army, attending the
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, in 1902. He was commissioned into the
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in 1903. Before the First World War, he served in
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and at
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in Ireland. He married an Irishwoman, Kathleen Mary Mills (daughter of Joseph Mills and Charlotte née Bloomfield), at
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on 23 April 1914. They honeymooned in Fermoy. Their son, Denys Herbert George, was born on 12 January 1915 in White House in Acomb; Kathleen died in childbirth. On the outbreak of the First World War, he was sent to France on the Union-Castle steamer SS ''Braemar Castle'' in September 1914. He kept a personal diary of his experiences. In 1916, Leone was seconded to serve as
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in the 3rd Australian Infantry Brigade of the 1st Australian Division after it was redeployed from
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to
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. He died on active service on 20 February 1917 from
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. He is buried in the communal war cemetery in
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near
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. Leone's elder brother Leo (Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet) also served in France, in the 1st Battalion of the
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. He went missing, presumed killed, on 1 November 1914 and his body was never found. He is commemorated on the
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memorial.Casualty Details for TOLLEMACHE, LEO DE ORELLANA
from the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tollemache, Leone Sextus 1884 births English people of Spanish descent 1917 deaths Military personnel from Lincolnshire Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I Deaths from influenza Infectious disease deaths in France
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ( ; 10 June 1884 – 20 February 1917) was a Captain (OF-2), captain in the British Army who died during the World War I, First World War ...
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