Name
Cecil Hubert de Wael
1st Dec 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
London Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
IV. D. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
OH TRUE BRAVE LOVING HEART GOD BLESS & KEEP THEE TILL WE MEET AGAIN
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Dulwich College, London
Pre War
Cecil Hubert de Wael was born on 1st December 8th 1895, the youngest son of bullion agent Emile de Wael, but the only one with his then wife, Eleanor.
He joined Dulwich not long after his fifteenth birthday, and stayed for three and a half years, leaving in the summer of 1914.
Wartime Service
He applied for a commission upon the outbreak of war, and in October of 1914 Cecil was made a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. Subsequently he spent a long period of time still in England training, before going over to France for the first time in April 1917.
He was wounded and evacuated to No. 8 Stationary Hospital in Wimereux, where he died on April 6th 1918
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
