Name
Charles Ingleton Widcombe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
3rd Bn., attached 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 26 and 63.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 21 Jul 1894 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire son of William Harris and Alice Marion (Baigent) Widcombe of Queensmead, Datchet, Windsor. Educated at the United Services College 1906-11. He became a surveyor.
Wartime Service
Entered WW1 in Mesopotamia in Dec 1915 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
