Vyvyan W D Lt 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

Vyvyan W D Lt Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

Vyvyan W D Lt 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

VYVYAN, WALTER DRUMMOND, Lieut., 2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, elder s. of Capt. Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan, of Trewan, St. Columb, Cornwall, late 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt. and Temp. Lieut.-Col. 21st (Reserve) Battn. of the same, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward Sladen Foster, of Dowsby, co. Lincoln; b. Bath, co. Somerset, 20 March, 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 May, 1907, and promoted Lieut. 19 March, 1910; went to France, 21. Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, Belgium, 2 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1