Their son was Captain Claude Leonard Eyre Muntz R.N., who died of his wounds 17th November 1916.
aged 36. Claude Leonard Eyre Muntz was born at Ramikhet, India, on 21 August 1880, the son of John Frederick (formerly a Captain, East Lancashire Regiment) and Alice Maud Muntz, of Ellesmere, Paignton, Devon. He was educated at King William’s College, Isle of Man, and entered the Royal Naval School, Eltham in 1894; passing his Sandhurst examination at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1898; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, R.M.L.I. in 1899; Lieutenant, 1900; served aboard H.M.S. Niobe escorting Prince and Princess of Wales to Canada in 1909; Wei-Hai-Wai, 1913. During the Great War he served with the 1st R.M. Battalion, R.N.D. in Gallipoli, prior to being posted to the Western Front. During the Battle of the Ancre (Beaumont Hamel), he received a sniper round to the head, shattering his skull. He subsequently died of wounds on 17 November 1916, at 44 Casualty Clearing Station, and is buried at Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France. His widow remarried.