CH de Wael Career Description

Pelham Lodge

Bickley, Kent. 20/7/21

Dear Sir,

I hope the following particulars are not too late for publication in the War List, altho’ I sent a photo & some short notices to the magazine in May 1918 as requested. If you have not the photo please let me know & I will send you another. My son Cecil H. de Wael, Lt. R.F.A., obtained a commission in Sept. 1914 & went out to France early in 1916, joining the 1^st/8^th London Territorials 47^th Div. 236 Brigade. He went straight on the Somme & was at the Battle of Ypres, where he was in hospital for three months with ‘gassing’ & burns. Rejoining Dec. 1917 he was stationed near Bapaume when the German Offensive started on the 20^th March 1918. He was on continuous duty in the saddle for four days, bringing up ammunition, hours of having to do double duty as half the Battery was on leave. [2]

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He was severely wounded by a shot from the enemy, his horse being killed under him, after two days on the night of the 24^th March & his thigh severely fractured, he arrived at No. 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne on the 27^th & died there on the 6^th April, & is buried in Wimereux Cemetery.

 

De Wael