George Augustus Frederick Lake

In c. 1798, Lake joined the British Army and served as his father's aide-de-camp and military secretary, participating in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Second Anglo-Maratha War. By 1803, he had risen to the rank of major in the 94th Regiment of Foot and fought at Battle of Laswari on 1 November. At the battle, Lake was seriously wounded and was helped his father to remount another horse after he had his horse shot from under him.^[3]

In early 1808 Lake, now at the rank of lieutenant colonel in the 29th Regiment of Foot, embarked with his regiment from Britain and travelling via Gibraltar landed in the Iberian Peninsula in June 1808. One of the regiment's officers claimed that they were one of the first British units to do so.^[4] On 17 August 1808, Lake was killed in action at the Battle of Roliça.^[5] Lake was leading the 29th's grenadier company into a mountain pass when they were fired on entrenched French infantry, killing Lake, though his men succeeded in routing the French.^[6][7] He was buried by his men after the battle close to the spot where he died; a memorial plaque, sculpted by James Smith, was installed in Westminster Abbey commemorating his death.^[8].^[9] His father had predeceased him by six months having died shortly after his son's regiment had sailed for Gibraltar.