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Regiment: Hampshire Regt.
Died: 20 July 1918 aged 24 in Iran. Killed in action at Reshit, Persia.
Cemetery: Tehran War Cemetery P 3 C 1
Son of Henry Wall and Ada Wilkinson, 14 Creffield Road, Ealing, W. b. 1894.
Upper IV B.
Afterwards at Repton School.
Great War, Private Inns of Court O.T.C. 1914; Lieutenant 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment attd. Dunsterforce.
'He was in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1917. Once wounded. Killed in action at Resht, Persia when advancing to Baku on 20 July 1918.'Greatwarforum
Dunsterforce was named after its commander, General Lionel Dunsterville and was intended to organise local units in northern Iran (Persia) and southern Caucasus, to replace the Tsarist armies that had fought the Ottoman armies in Armenia. In July 1918, Captain Stanley Savige, five officers and fifteen NCOs of Dunsterforce, set out towards Urmia and were caught up in an exodus of Assyrians, after the town had been captured by the Ottoman army. About 80,000 people fled and the Dunsterforce party helped hold off the Ottoman pursuit and attempts by local Kurds to get revenge on the Assyrians for their earlier plundering.Wikipedia article
Service record: WO 374/74535