253470 Lt. Meyrick Edward Selby-Lowndes British Army 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.27th October 1918) Lieutenant Meyrick Edward Selby-Lowndes came from nobility and landed gentry. In 1911 his family lived at Highfield, Milton Avenue. In the 1920s his father, a Burnham magistrate, owned Marsham Manor and his sister Violet lived at The Corner House.
Meyrick joined the prestigious 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in 1916 but was mortally wounded near Cambrai in France. He died after seven weeks of suffering on 27th of October 1918, age 20 years, just two weeks before the end of the war.
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