Later Life
After his expulsion as a naval cadet in 1908, George Archer-Shee returned to the Roman Catholic Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, where he had been educated before going to Osborne Naval College. After completing his studies, he went to work at the Wall Street firm of Fisk & Robinson in New York City.
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Archer-Shee returned to Britain and was commissioned in the British Army as a second lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. It is believed Archer-Shee joined the South Staffs at the suggestion of Sir Edward Carson, whose own nephew F.E. Robinson had recently joined the regiment. Archer-Shee was killed, aged 19, at the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914. His name is inscribed on the war memorial in the village of North Woodchester in Gloucestershire where his parents lived. Robinson was killed three days before Archer-Shee. Both their names are recorded on tablet 35 of the Menin Gate in Ypres, as neither has a known grave.
Remaining in the Royal Navy, Terence Back was promoted to captain in 1938 and served on the Arctic Convoys during the World War II. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1944 and died in 1968.
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