Ronald D'Arcy Fife
(1868-1946), Lieutenant-ColonelSitter in 3 portraits
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1917
NPG x167533
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1917
NPG x43490
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1917
NPG x43491
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Andrew Clive
26 July 2021, 22:11
He was born in 1868 and joined the Green Howards in 1887, serving with them in Alexandria, Cyprus, Egypt and Burma. In 1901 he became ADC to the Governor of Madras, Lord Ampthill, where he stayed for five years. He then rejoined his regiment in South Africa and then stayed on in Capetown as Military Secretary to the Governor, Sir William Hely-Hutchinson. In 1911 he returned to England where the Battalion was stationed in York. He retired from the army shortly thereafter and obtained a job as a district remount officer in the West Riding of Yorkshire. When war broke out he was given command of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards, and on 13th July 1915, after eleven months of training, the battalion sailed for France. He was wounded on 14th February 1917 and shipped home. He was awarded CMG and DSO. The rest of his life he spent living in North Yorkshire, at Nunnington Hall, where he died in 1946.