Carroll Carstairs MC

Military Cross

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(1888–1948) was an American

United States

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 art dealer who served in the Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

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 of the British Army

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 during World War I

World War I

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He was a son of Charles Stewart Carstairs (1865-1928), a noted American art dealer who was chairman of the board of M Knoedler, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Stebbins (died 1949). He had two siblings, [James Stewart Carstairs] (1892-1932), an artist, and a sister, Elizabeth (aka Lily Carstairs, Mrs John Henry Towers, Mrs Martin Brown Saportas).

Carstairs wrote the book A Generation Missing, his memoir of the conflict, which was published in 1930.

He married, in 1924, Susan Burks Yuille (1901-1978). They had no children.