| Other Info | Died age 20. Cemetery: Beuvry Communal 54, France.
Articile from the Coleshill Chronicle, 10th July 1915:
LIEUT. J. D. WILLMOT KILLED ROYAL MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.
Son of George Dyott Willmot and Nellie P. Chattock (formerly Willmot), Blyth Cottage, Coleshill, Birmingham.
News was received on Monday evening of the death in action on July 3rd of Lieutenant John Dyott Willmot, the eldest son of Mr George Dyott Willmot, of Coleshill. Lieutenant Willmot was in his 20th year. He joined the 6th Worcestershire Battalion (Officer’s Reserve) last October, and left for France in January, as a subaltern attached to the 2nd Worcesters. He was invalided home owing to an accident, but returned to the front after a few weeks. In his school days he was known as a great athlete, and at Malvern College, where he went from Mr J G Bradshaw’s Preparatory School at Packwood Hough, he won the open high jump in 1913 and 1914 and the long jump in 1914. He was in Mr P R Farrant’s house at Malvern, and became a School Prefect. He was a member of the Officers’ Training Corps at the College. |
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