Malvern College Second World War Casualty

Lieut. Reginald Latimer Willson

House and time at Malvern: 2, 1934 - 1938.

Regiment: Royal Tank Regt..
Died: 11 December 1944 aged 23 in Greece. Killed on active service in Athens.
Cemetery: Phaleron War Cemetery 17. C. 6.

Son of Albert Reginald and Nora Margaret Willson, of Queen's Bank, Hertford.
House Prefect.
Inns of Court, 1940.
50th Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
Served in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. Killed in Athens, Dec. 1944.

He was shot through the back whilst on the steps of a hospital which was in enemy hands.
Unit war diary: WO 170/864

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