Braithwaite R W Captain 10th Durham Light Infantry
CAPTAIN RICHARD WILFRED BRAITHWAITE, Durham Light Infantry, was the son of the late Reverend J. M. Braithwaite, Vicar and Rural Dean of Croydon.
He was educated at Marlborough College and began his career as a planter in Ceylon. He fought and was wounded in the South African War as a trooper in the Ceylon Mounted Infantry. In 1910 he became a member of the Stock Exchange and a partner in the firm of Foster and Braithwaite.
On the outbreak of War he received a commission as Captain in the 10th Durham Light Infantry. He was wounded on 27 July 1915, but refused to leave the trenches, and was killed four days later.
Captain Braithwaite married, in 1907, a daughter of Mr. Brodhurst Hill.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918