SOUTHWELL Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot

  • First Name(s):
    Evelyn 
    Herbert 
    Lightfoot 
  • Surname:
    SOUTHWELL
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
  • Battalion:
    13th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    15th September 1916
  • Age At Death:
    31
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 16B and 16C.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the Rev. Canon Herbert Burrows Southwell, M.A., and Mrs. Annie Southwell, 5.5, College Yard, Worcester

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Captain Evelyn SOUTHWELL served and died in WW1.

SOUTHWELL Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot Is Named On These Memorials

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Further Information About SOUTHWELL Evelyn Herbert Lightfoot

Evelyn Southwell was born on 19th March 1886. He attended Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1908 he was spare man for the Olympic Rowing Crew. In 1910 he became an Assistant Master at Shrewsbury School.

Evelyn was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. He entered France on 20th October 1915 and had risen to the rank of Captain when he was killed in action on 15th September 1916. He was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1915 Star.

Further information and a photograph of Evelyn Southwell in Army uniform can be found from ‘Letters Home and A Diary (Two Men, One Memorial) available from:
http://www.archive.org/details/twomenmemoir00soutuoft

A photograph of Lieutenant Southwell of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 30th September 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Evelyn Southwell has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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