Post by David / AmicusBesides Prince Oleg Constantinovitch Romanov did any other royals die in
active service during WWI?
And is Prince Oleg considered a saint by the Russian Church? From what
little I've read about him he's seems like a blameless youth.
I don't know the answer to the second part of your post, but here is
what I have for the first part.
(Comments and additions welcomed.)
Members of European Reigning Sovereign Families Who Fell During the
Great War (World War I), 1914 - 1918
Abbreviations:
b. = born
d. = died
ka = killed in action
m. = married
unm. = unmarried
BAVARIA
Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (unm.)
- son of Prince Arnulf of Bavaria and Princess Therese of
Liechtenstein
- b. 24 June 1884 Munich
- ka Monte Sule, Transylvania 8 Nov. 1916
HESSE
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse (unm.)
- son of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse (future Titular Elector of
Hesse as Landgrave of Hesse) and Princess Margarethe of Prussia
- brother of Prince Maximilian (see below)
- b. 23 Nov. 1893 Frankfurt-am-Main
- d. of wounds ("hémorragie des méninges") received in action near
Kara (Kurm) Orman, Dobroudja, Roumania (during the night of ) 12/13
Sept. 1916
Prince Maximilian of Hesse (unm.)
- son of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse (future Titular Elector of
Hesse as Landgrave of Hesse) and Princess Margarethe of Prussia
- brother of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (see above)
- b. 20 Oct. 1894 Schloss Rumpenheim
- d. of wounds received in action at Saint-Jean-Chappelle, near
Bailleul, France 13 Oct. 1914
ITALY
Prince Umberto of Savoy, Count of Salemi (unm.)
- son of Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta and Princess Laetitia
Napoléon
- b. 22 June 1889 Turin
- ka Crespano del Grapfen 19 Oct. 1918
- officer, Italian Army
LIECHTENSTEIN
- Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (unm.)
- son of Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein and Princess Henriette of
Liechtenstein
- b. 21 June 1877 Hollenegg
- d. of wounds received in action at Warsaw 16 Aug. 1915
- Lieutenant, Dragoons, Austrian Army
LIPPE
Prince Ernst of Lippe (unm.)
- son of Prince Rudolf of Lippe and Princess Luise von Ardeck (née
Princess Luise of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld)
- b. 20 Jan. 1892 Berlin
- ka Villiers-les-Guise, near St-Quentin, France 28 Aug. 1914
- Lieutenant, Prussian Army
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe
- son of Julius, Count und Edler Herr zur Lippe-Biesterfeld and
Countess Adelheid of Castell-Castell
- m. to Countess Gisela zu Ysenburg und Büdingen in Meerholz
- b. 16 July 1858 Neudorf
- ka Liege, Belgium 6 Aug. 1914
Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld
- son of Count Franz of Lippe-Weissenfeld and Baroness Marie von
Beschwitz
- m. to Princess Anna of Ysenburg und Büdingen in Büdingen
- b. 3 Jan. 1870 Dresden
- ka Goldap, East Prussia 11 Sept. 1914
PRUSSIA
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (unm.)
- son of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia and Princess Louise
Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein
- b. 6 April 1893 Klein-Glienicke
- ka St-Bouvray, near Rouen, France 6 April 1917
REUSS
Prince Heinrich XLI Reuss (unm.)
- son of Heinrich XXIV, Fürst Reuss-Köstritz and Princess Elisabeth
Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz
- b. 2 Sept.1892 Ernstbrunn
- ka Bivolita, Roumania 29 Nov. 1916
Prince Heinrich XLIV Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (unm.)
- son of Prince Heinrich XXV Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz and Countess
Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach
- brother of Prince Heinrich XLVI (see below)
- b. 30 Jan.1894 Gross-Krauche
- d. of wounds received in action at Laon at Glochau 29 Oct. 1918
Prince Heinrich XLVI Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (unm.)
- son of Prince Heinrich XXV Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz and Countess
Elisabeth of Solms-Laubach
- brother of Prince Heinrich XLIV (see above)
- b. 28 April 1896 Gross-Krauche
- ka (at the battle of) La Bassée, Belgium 20 Oct. 1914
Prince Heinrich XXXVIII Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (unm.)
- son of Prince Heinrich XVIII Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz and Duchess
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- b. 6 Nov.1889 Ludwigslust
- ka Ligny, near Brabant-sur-Meuse, Belgium 22 Mar. 1918
RUSSIA
Prince Oleg Constantinovitch of Russia (unm.)
- son of Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovitch of Russia and Princess
Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
- b. 15/ 27 Nov.1892 St. Petersburg
- d. of wounds received in action (while in a cavalry charge against
the Germans) at Vilna 12 Oct.1914
- "the only royal to die in action on the Allied side in World War I",
according to *The Grand Dukes*, by David Chavchavadze, New York:
Atlantic International Publications, 1990 (p. 149)
SAXON DUCHIES
Prince Ernst of Saxe-Meiningen (unm.)
- son of Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (see below) and Princess
Adelheid of Lippe
- b. 23 Sept.1895 Hanover
- ka Maubeuge, Nord, France 27 Aug. 1914
Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen
- father of Prince Ernst (see above)
- son of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Princess Feodora of
Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- m. to Princess Adelheid of Lippe
- b. 12 Oct.1861 Meiningen
- ka Tarcienne, near Charleroi, Belgium 23 Aug. 1914
Prince Albert of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (unm.)
- son of Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Princess Gerta zu
Ysenburg und Büdingen in Wachtersbach
- b. 31 Dec.1886 Dusseldorf
- ka Gouzeaucourt, Nord, France 9 Sept. 1918
WALDECK AND PYRMONT
Prince Wolrad Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont (unm.)
- son of Georg Viktor, Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont and Princess Luise
of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg
- b. 26 June 1892 Arolsen
- ka Moorslede, Belgium 17 Oct. 1914
Some Observations:
The oldest soldier was Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (b. 1858),
who was 56 years old when he was killed in action in Aug. 1914.
The youngest soldier was Prince Heinrich XLVI Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz
(b. 1896), who was 18 years old when he was killed in action in Oct.
1914.
The first soldier to die was Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (b.
1858), when he was killed in action on 6 Aug. 1914.
The last soldier to die was Prince Heinrich XLIV
Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (b. 1894), when he died of wounds received in
action on 29 Oct. 1918.
Father and Son who died in the Great War:
- Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861-1914), and his son Prince
Ernst of Saxe-Meiningen (1895-1914). They died four days apart: Prince
Friedrich on 23 Aug. and Prince Ernst on 27 Aug.
Brothers who died in the Great War:
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse (1893-1916) and Prince Maximilian
of Hesse (1894-194), sons of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse (future
Titular Elector of Hesse as Landgrave of Hesse) and Princess
Margarethe of Prussia.
- Prince Heinrich XLIV Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (1894-1918) and Prince
Heinrich XLVI Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz (1896-1914), sons of Prince
Heinrich XXV Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz and Countess Elisabeth of
Solms-Laubach
--
Yvonne
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit
again in our lifetime." - - Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet (1862-1933)
(later Viscount Grey Of Falloden), Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, 3 Aug. 1914 (the night before Britain declared war on the
German Empire after the Germans invaded Belgium)