Biography:
Edward Hugh Bagot Stack was born 14 September 1885, the son of Edward Stack of the Bengal Civil Service, and of Marion Rosalie, daughter of Frederic Oldham. After his father's death, his mother married Henry Luttman-Johnson (Commoner 1856) of Petworth, and a son of that marriage, Frederic Michell Luttman-Johnson, came to Winchester in 1905, and Edward's sister married another Wykehamist, RW Seton Watson (C 1893-1898).
Edward came to Winchester College in September 1899 from Temple Grove School, East Sheen. He was in C House, Du Boulay's, under AK Cook, and left Winchester in the summer of 1902.
In 1904, Edward passed into the RMC at Sandhurst and obtained his commission in the Indian Army the following year. He then served as a captain in the 8th Gurkha Rifles. In March 1912 he married Mary Meta Stack, daughter of Theodore Stack of Dublin.
At the outbreak of war he was appointed to the Staff and served for some time at Marseilles, superintending the disembarkation of troops from India. As soon as his own unit, 2nd Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles (the 'Shiny Eighth'), arrived at Marseilles on 12 October 1914, as part of 21 (Bareilly) Indian Infantry Brigade of the Meerut Division, he joined it and accompanied it to the front.
Stack fell at Festubert on 30 October 1914, during the Battle of La Bassée, aged twenty-nine, and is commemorated in panels 34-36 of the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial. He left an infant daughter.