| Other Info | Son of the Rev. Charles Chaytor, Rector of St. Helens. and St. Albans with St. Michael's, Worcester, since 1881 b. there 23 Oct. 1891 ; educ. at King's School (Cathedral), Worcester, where he was successively captain of cricket and of the boats, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he held the Worfleld Scholarship and the Inge Exhibition. On leaving there he took up tea planting in Ceylon, was a member of the Volunteer Defence Force, and on the outbreak of war joined the Ceylon Rifle Corps. Early in 1915 he came to England, obtained a commission in the County Regt. 6 Feb. 1915, and (while serving later with the 3rd Battn.) was severely wounded in the trenches near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, and died in a field hospital two days later ; unm. His colonel and brother officers wrote of him as " a most promising officer." a " born soldier," " always ready to volunteer on any dangerous venture." He was buried in the churchyard of La Clytte. |
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