Name
Wilfrid Marryat Bliss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/03/1915
49
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
2nd Bn. (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT
VIII. J. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born in Aug 1866 in Hanover Square, London. Living with great uncle in Eccleston Square, Pimlico in 1871. Educated at Haileybury College 1880–84. Commissioned Lieutenant on 25 Aug 1886, Captain on 1 Apr 1896 and Major on 7 May 1904.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the war the battalion was in Malta. It returned to Southampton on 22 Sep 1914 and soon left for France. Lt Col Bliss was killed in action with many of his men at Neuve Chapelle.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
