According to the Mary Evans Picture Library:
On this day 100 years ago, the Great War claimed the life of a young and popular member of the royal family – Prince Maurice of Battenberg…the youngest son of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, and consequently the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria.
It is characteristic that he was among the first to go to France… While leading an advance at Zonnebeke during the 1st Battle of Ypres, he was hit by shrapnel from a shell and died within minutes.
Maurice was buried in Ypres cemetery, his mother, Princess Beatrice [said] ‘Let him lie with his men’.
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