Lord Edward Hay

Lord Edward Douglas John Hay DL (2 November 1888 – 18 June 1944) was a British soldier, at the time of his death commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards. Hay saw active service in the First World War, after which he was posted on diplomatic missions. He was killed by a German V-1 flying bomb. Life Born on 2 November 1888 in East Lothian, Scotland, Hay was the younger son of William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, of Yester House, East Lothian, Hay was the brother and heir-presumptive of the 11th Marquess. He attended Ludgrove School. Hay saw active service in the 1914–1918 War at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and France. He was at the Paris Peace Conference from 1919 until it concluded in 1920. After that, as a Captain in the Grenadier Guards he was Staff Captain to General Sir Edmund Ironside for Special Missions to Hungary and Romania, then from 1921 to 1923 was Military Secretary to Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner for Palestine.