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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Devonshire Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   W

(28 officers)

 

 

WALLINGTON, Charles Harold

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1/6th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment).   Killed in action in Belgium on 20th September 1917.   Aged 35.

 

WALTER, Cecil

Captain.   9th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 8th October 1917.   Aged 35.

 

WATKINS, Eustace Arundel St Barbe Sladen

Captain.   2nd Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 31st January 1915.   Aged 26.

 

WATSON, George Carr

Captain.   1/6th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 8th March 1916.   Aged 30.

 

WATTS, Harold Vaughan Iremonger

Captain.   2nd Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 11th August 1917.   Aged 36.

 

WEBBER, Leonard Alexander

Second Lieutenant.   9th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 9th July 1916.   Aged 23.

 

WEBBER, William Henry

Lieutenant.   3/4th Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 2nd June 1915.   Aged 50.

 

WEEKS, John

Lieutenant.   Attached to 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment.   Lost at sea with HMT "Royal Edward" in the Mediterranean on 13th August 1915.   Aged 25

 

WHIPPLE, Herbert Connell

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 24th November 1914.   Aged 35.

 

WHITE, Edwin George

Captain, MC.   8th Battalion.   Died of wounds in Italy on 7th May 1918.   Aged 26.

 

WILKINSON, Frederick William (aka BUSH, Frederick William)

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th May 1918.   Aged 35.

 

WILLIAMS, Sir Burton Robert

Lieutenant, MiD*.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 3rd October 1917.   Aged 27.

 

WILLIS, Frederick

Lieutenant.   1/5th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 30th September 1918.   Aged 25.

 

WILLY, John Howard Cole

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 25th November 1917.   Aged 34.

 

WILSON, William James

Second Lieutenant.   10th Battalion.   Killed in action in Salonika on 24th April 1917.   Aged 23.

 

WILSON, William Keates Harrison

Captain.   1st (Garrison) Battalion.   Died in Egypt on 12th April 1916.   Aged 56.

 

WINDLE, Michael William Maxwell

Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.   Aged 22.

 

WINDSOR, Mark Gilham

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 10th March 1915.   Aged 24.

 

WINNICOTT, Russell

Lieutenant, MC.   Seconded to 41st Squadron Royal Flying Corps.   Killed in aerial action in France on 6th December 1917.   Aged 19.

 

WISE, Henry Lupton

Lieutenant.   1/6th Battalion.   Lost at sea with HMT "Aragon" in the Mediterranean on 30th December 1917.   Aged 39.

 

WOLLOCOMBE, Francis

Second Lieutenant.   9th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 10th September 1916.   Aged 24.

 

WONNACOTT, Thomas Henry

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th May 1917.   Aged 20.

 

WOOLLCOMBE, John Morth

Major, MiD.   1/4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 3rd February 1917.   Aged 39.

 

WORNER, Percival Seymour

Second Lieutenant.   9th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 4th September 1916.   Aged 32.

 

WREFORD, Bertram William Heyman

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 23rd April 1917.   Aged 22.

 

WRIGHT, George Clinton

Second Lieutenant, MiD.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 10th March 1915.   Aged 24.

 

WYATT, William John

Second Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 29th October 1917.   Aged 19.

 

WYNDHAM, George Heremon

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.   Killed in action in Belgium on 24th March 1915.   Aged 21.

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