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Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Vaux, CMG, DSO, VD, DL (5 March
1865 – 21 November 1925) was a British Army officer.
A member of the Vaux Breweries family, Vaux was born in
Bishopwearmouth, the son of John Story Vaux (1834–1881) and his wife, Harriet,
née Douglas (1837–1901). He was educated at the Worcester College for the Blind
Sons of Gentlemen and served with the Durham Royal Garrison Artillery
Volunteers. He served in the Second Boer War, commanded the Maxim guns with the
Imperial Yeomanry and took part in operations in the Transvaal, the Orange
River Colony and the Cape Colony. He was mentioned in despatches, received the
Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps and appointed a Companion of the
Distinguished Service Order in 1901. In 1903, he received the Volunteer
Officers' Decoration.
In 1906, Vaux married Emily Eve Lellam Ord (1876–1966), the
eldest daughter of Henry Moon Ord, a shipowner of Sunderland; they had four
children:
Rose Lellam Ord Vaux (1907–1994)
Emily Henrietta Ord Vaux (1909–1994)
Ernest Ord Vaux (1911–1936), died from a polo accident in
Aden.
Peter Douglas Ord Vaux (1913–1980)
Vaux served with the Durham Light Infantry in France and
Belgium from 1914 to 1916 during World War I, was twice mentioned in despatches
and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1916
and an Officer of the Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 1919. He died at a nursing
home on Windsor Crescent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1925 and was buried in St
Cuthbert's churchyard in Barton, North Yorkshire, near his home, Brettanby
Manor.
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