Name
Lancelot Andrewes Vidal
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
3rd Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 83 to 85.
France
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Bayford & Brickendon Memorial, Bayford
Pre War
Born 12 Jun 1887 in the Vicarage, Bayford, Herts. son of Robert Wellington Vidal, Vicar of St Mary’s Church, Bayford and Caroline Elizabeth (Andrewes) Vidal. He was baptised on 21 Jun 1887 in St Mary’s Church, Bayford. Educated at Malvern College and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1911 he was a school master at St Peter’s School, Radley, Berks. Lived at Windrush, Foxcombe Hill, Berks.
Wartime Service
Commissioned in Sep 1914 and entered France in Mar 1915. He was involved in heavy fighting at Ypres in Apr and May 1915. He was killed near Givenchy by a shell while he was pushing forward with his section.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
