Ernest Vaux

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 was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in November 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.

References

• Anglo Boer War - Vaux, Ernest
• Obituary