Trevelyan W 2nd Lt 4th Rifle Brigade
SECOND LIEUTENANT W. TREVELYAN
4TH BATTALION THE RIFLE BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CONSORT’S OWN)
LIEUTENANT WILFRED TREVELYAN was the second son of Sir Ernest J. Trevelyan (O.R.), D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, and of Julia Isabel his wife. He entered the School in 1907, and left in 1912. After leaving School he became an undergraduate of Manchester University, in preparation for Engineering work in India. Soon after the War broke out he was gazetted to the 5th (Reserve) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and in March, 1915, was transferred to the 4th Battalion, with which he went to France in the same month. He died on the 5th May from injuries received the previous day near Ypres, being hit by a shrapnel shell while employed on improving a communication trench. He was buried in the garden of the Château of Hooge. Age 21.
A brother Officer wrote to his father:-
“All his men wish me to tell you that they had a great respect for him and would have followed him anywhere.”
Source : Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War 1914-1918 Vol 1
Trevelyan W 2nd Lt 4th Rifle Brigade
TREVELYAN, WILFRED, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan, of 1, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, etc. [gdson. of the Ven. George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, 3rd s. of Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, 4th Bart.], by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabel, dau. of Edward Walhouse Mark, late Consul at Marseilles; b. Calcutta, 10 Oct. 1893; educ. Rugby, and at Manchester University; gazetted from the Officers’ Training Corps to the 5th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, was transferred to the 4th Battn. 8 Sept. following, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 5 May, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. He was buried in the grounds of Hooge Chateau, France; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1