Noel LEE V.D. (2)

LEE Noel, V.D. Mentioned in Despatches, Brigadier-General, 6th, Manchester Regiment. Commanding Manchester Brigade, 42nd Division. Died of his wounds, 22nd June 1915, aged 48 years. He was the son of Sir Joseph Cocksey Lee, and husband of Lilian Lee, of Horsley House, Tilford, Surrey.

Noel Lee was the first Territorial to be promoted Brigadier General in WWI and to command the Manchester Brigade of 42nd Infantry Division. Old Etonian and pre-war commanding officer of the 6th Territorial Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. In civilian life a director of the Manchester textile company Tootal Broadhurst Lee. A man of great vision and understanding he was severely wounded in the great battle of Krithia on 4th June 1915, later dying in the Blue Sisters' hospital in Malta.
Brigadier General Lee was commanding the 127th (Manchester) Brigade when he was wounded in the throat by shrapnel on 4 June 1915 at Krithia Nullah and died from a haemorrhage when the wound reopened on Malta.

His son Noel Esmond LEE. Captain, 8th King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 24 August 1917 aged 20. Son of Mrs. Lilian Lee, of Horsley House, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey, and the late Brig. Gen. Noel Lee (Manchester Brigade, T.F.) who also fell in action. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

At rest in Plot XXV, Grave 4, Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.

He is commemorated on St Bartholomew's Church War Memorial, Wilmslow, Cheshire.