Malvern College First World War Casualty

House and time at Malvern: No 2, 1909 - 1913.

Regiment: Royal Fusiliers.
Died: 31 July 1917 aged 22 in Belgium. Killed in action.
Battle: Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). Cemetery: Ypres Menin Gate P 6-8

Son of Captain J. Waley, Northumberland Street, W. b. 1895.
Upper IV B—Modern I.
In business.
Great War, Private Middlesex Regt. 1914; Lieutenant 12th Bn. Royal Fusiliers .

'On the first day of the war he enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment, but was transferred to the O.T.C., and gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers. He went with his battalion to France, and was seriously wounded in the fighting at Loos in 1915. He developed tetanus, and lay for many weeks between life and death. On recovery he re-joined the depot, and in due course went back to his original battalion in France, where, within 48 hours of his return to the trenches, he met his death leading his platoon.' (Malvernian, Nov 1917).