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Captain The Rt Hon. Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC (NI), JP (23 July 1894 – 21 January 1981), was a senior Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. Before his involvement in politics he was a British Army officer, decorated with the Military Cross in World War I and having fought at the Battle of the Somme. His positions after the war included Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for twenty-three years, and member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, to which he was appointed in 1946. He was shot and killed〔Tim Pat Coogan, ''The IRA''; ISBN 0-00-636943-X, chapter 33.〕 (aged 86), along with his son, James (aged 48), by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1981 at Tynan Abbey, their home, which was burnt to the ground during the attack. ==Early life and military service== Sir Norman was born in Bryansford, County Down, Ireland, the son of Sir Charles Stronge, 7th Baronet, and Marian Bostock, whose family were from Epsom.〔‘STRONGE, Captain Rt. Hon. Sir (Charles) Norman (Lockhart)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 (Profile ), ukwhoswho.com; accessed 4 December 2010.〕 Educated at Eton, in the First World War he served in France and Flanders with the 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, as lieutenant and later as captain. He was decorated with the Military Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He survived the first day of the Battle of the Somme and was the first soldier after the start of the battle to be mentioned in despatches by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. In April 1918, he was appointed adjutant of the 15th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was wounded near Kortrijk on 20 October 1918.〔 He relinquished his commission on 19 August 1919, and was permitted to retain the rank of captain. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again commissioned, this time into the North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, reverting to second lieutenant. He relinquished the commission on 20 April 1940 due to ill-health. In 1950, he was appointed Honorary Colonel of a Territorial Army unit of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Stronge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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