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Regiment: Ox & Bucks Light Inf.
Died: 25 September 1915 aged 28 in France. Killed in action at Givenchy.
Battle: Battle of Loos. Cemetery: Loos Memorial Panel 83 to 85.
Son of Rev. R. W. Vidal, Bayford Vicarage, Hertford, b. 1887.
Upper V—VI. Minor Scholar. School Prefect. President of Debating Society. President of Athletics. XI Cricket 1905,06; XXII Football; Ledbury Cap.
Exhibitioner and Heath Harrison Exhibitioner, Brasenose College, Oxford ; B.A. (Fourth Class History) 1909.
Assistant Master at Radley College 1909.
Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Oxford and Bucks L.I. 1914.
3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry (Surname shows as Vidall in the cwgc website.)
'He went to Brasenose with a Heath Harrison Exhibition in 1906, took his degree in 1909, and had been a master at Radley from that time till the war broke out, when he took a commission in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He was five months at the front, went through the second battle of Ypres in the spring, and was killed by a shell on Sept. 25th at Givenchy. Full of vigorous life, simple and straightforward, he had a splendid influence over the many friends whom he has left behind him; he had grown steadily in all that goes to make a noble character. (S.R.J.). A friend who was in the School House with him writes: '-To say that he was an athlete, a man of warm affections and wide interests, in fact what is called 'a good fellow,' is to say only half.
Like his School House friend Clegg, who has also been killed in action, Vidal had, besides all that, a strong and purposeful mind. It was this combination that made him a leader among Malvernians."' (Malvernian, Dec 1915).