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Regiment: Queen's Westminster Rifles.
Died: 06 June 1917 aged 36 in France. Died of wounds.
Cemetery: Achiet Le Grand Communal Extension I K 1
Born April 8th 1881. Son of Charles Henry and Mary Elizabeth Weston, of "Somerville," St. John's Park, Ryde, Isle of Wight., and Bath.
Lower IV—Lower V.
King's College, Cambridge; B.A. (Third Class History Tripos) 1904; with Cambridge Settlement and the London Charity Organization Society.
Great War, Private 1914, 2nd Lieutenant 16th Bn. London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) 1916.
'At the outbreak of war he was in the office of the Charity Organization Society. Enlisting in the Queen's Westminster Rifles, he was given a commission, but had only been a short time at the front when he was wounded on May 21st, and succumbed on June 6th. He was one of those quiet lovable boys who live uneventful lives at school, and wait for things to happen before they show their metal afterwards. The following account, taken from The Times bears this out:— "He was one of the university men led to take up the assistance of persons in distress as their life work by their experience of work under Mr. Walter Long's Committee on the Unemployed, 1904-5. In 1905 Mr. Weston entered the service of the Charity Organization Society, and took charge of their work in the large district of Wandsworth. From that date until he left to join the Army in May, 1916, his devotion to the service of his neighbours, and his personal charm and exceptional ability, made him a leader in all voluntary effort for ameliorating the condition of the less fortunate, young and old, in that district. He was instrumental in starting branches of the Invalid Children's Aid Association and Skilled Employment Association; he was chairman of the Old-Age Pensions Committee; he helped to start Parochial Relief Committees at St. Mary's, Putney, and St. Anne's, Wandsworth. He also took a very active part in the work of the Prince of Wales's Relief Fund, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society, and the War Savings campaign. His relations with official bodies—borough councils, Poor Law guardians, school care committees—were of the most cordial character.' (Malvernian, Jul 1917).
He died of wounds at No 45 Casualty Clearing Station.
He is commemorated on the family grave at Walcot Cemetery, Lansdown Road, Bath.
Service record:WO 374/73279
Unit War Diary: WO 329/3272