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Wiggett, Edward Lyde, son of William Wiggett, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1895.

Wickham, Claud Edmund George, son of Edmund Karl Hans Wichmann of Lübeck, Germany (who assumed the name of Wickham 1921), and Fanny Handasyd, d. of John James Hopkins, dep. man. SE & Chatham Rly, of Ramsgate; b. 13 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H), KS Sept. 1926; left July 1928; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1935; FO (Med.) RAF Sept. 1936; SMO Advanced Air HQ. Western Desert 1941, despatches June 1942; CO Mobile Field Hosps 1943; DGMS Air Min. 1944-8; Wing Cdr RAF July 1947, Group Capt. July 1957; DPH (Edin.) 1952; Commandant RAF Med. Training Estab. 1952-5; dep. PMO Flving Training and ME Commands 1957-61; CO RAF Central Med. Estab. 1961, RAF Hosp. Uxbridge 1963; m. 14 May 1942 Patricia Mary, d. of Harry Woolley, artist, of Brede, Sussex; d. in a road accident 7 Oct. 1975.

Whittet, John Alexander, son of Alexander Willis Whittet, seed crusher, of Weybridge, Surrey, and Dorothy Frances, sister of Richard William Foxlee (qv); b. 6 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (H); left July 1933; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936, MA 1945; RAFVR 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), DFC (Berlin) Feb. 1944, bar to DFC June 1944; chairman A. Whittet & Co. Ltd, general commodity traders and publishers; m. 14 Sept. 1940 Mary Ethel Thackara, d. of Ernest Albert Edney of Horndean, Herts.; d. 9 Jan. 2007.

Whittard, Algernon Charles Evelyn, son of John Charles Whittard, of Redhill, Surrey; b. March 9, 1885; adm. May 4, 1899 (H); left July 1901; d. at Paris Nov. 3, 1908.

Whitney-Smith, Charles Alexander, son of Edwin Whitney-Smith RBS, sculptor, of Kilburn, and Rachel Pitt; b. 16 Jan. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left July 1931; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1931, capt. OUFC, fenced against Cambridge, BA 1936; Brit. Univs Foil champion 1934, Brit. Junior Epée champion 1936; fenced for England 1936; RNVR 1939-45 (Lieut.), despatches Dec. 1945; HM Foreign Service Lyon, Paris, Marseille; Consul Attaché Rangoon 1953; m. 21 Apr. 1943 Patricia Ann, d. of Edgar Booth of Hythe, Kent; d. 16 Jan. 1984.

Whitmore, John Beach, only son of William Beach Whitmore, M.B., of London, by Mary Caroline, only daughter of George Stanbury Pedler, of Knightsbridge. b. June 19, 1882; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); exhibitioner 1896; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1901, matric. Michaelmas 1901; B.A. 1904; 2nd Lieut. Queen's Westminster Rifles Dec. 24, 1904; Lieut. May 21, 1906; Capt. July 29, 1914; Major June 1, 1916; served in France and Belgium 1914-8; T.D. July 1919; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1920, practised in London; secretary of the Elizabethan Club 1924-5; a Bushy Trustee 1953; joint editor of the present work; compiler of A Genealogical Guide (1953); the outstanding genealogist of his day; m. July 6, 1929, Edith Diana, youngest daughter of Richard Henry Botham, M.R.C.S., of Skelton-in­ Cleveland, Yorks; d. Oct. 4, 1957; bequeathed a considerable fortune to the school, subject to certain life interests.

Whitman, Herbert Edward S., son of Sidney Whitman, of Kensington, by Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of Capt. Edmund Francis Anstey, 20th Regt.; b. Feb. 15, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1907.

Whitlamsmith, Laurence Holland, brother of Gerard Kime Whitlamsmith (qv); b. 12 Dec. 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (H); left July 1924; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1924, BA 1927, LLB 1928; adm. a solicitor Aug. 1930; Divorce Dept of the Law Society; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut.); d. 1 Oct. 1958.

Whitlamsmith, Gerard Kime, son of Harry Holland Whitlamsmith, of Brockley, Kent, by Edith Mary, daughter of Albert Allwright, of Lewisham, Kent; b. July 17, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (H); elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. Aug. 1922, matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1925; an administrative officer, Tanganyika Territory, 1926; asst. District Officer 1928; secretary, Lands and Mines Dept., 1936; District Officer 1938; Chief Secretary 1945; m. Feb. 27, 1929, Dora, eldest daughter of James Hatley.

Whiskard, Richard Geoffrey, son of Sir Geoffrey Granville Whiskard KCB KCMG, UK High Commissioner to the Commonweath of Australia, and his first wife Cynthia Salome Caroline, d. of Edmund Whitelock Reeves; b. 31 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (H), KS May 1935; left July 1938; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938; Welsh Guards 1940-4 (Lieut.); killed in action (Normandy) 2 Aug. 1944.

Richard Geoffrey Whiskard was born at Kensington, London on the 21st of March 1920 the elder son of Sir Geoffrey Granville Whiskard KCB, KCMG, MA, High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of Australia, and Lady Cynthia Salome Caroline (nee Reeves) Whiskard of 156, Sloane Street in London and of 13, Mill Street, Mildenhall in Suffolk. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1933 to July 1938 and was a King’s Scholar from May 1935. From the beginning of his time at Westminster he took an intense interest in the School and in the Abbey and was already a considerable authority on their history and antiquities. He matriculated for University College, Oxford in 1938 but left before graduating for military service.
He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards on the 2nd of November 1940. He was posted to the 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion of his Regiment on the 8th of September 1943.
The 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards landed in Normandy in late June 1944 and fought in a number of engagements during the following few weeks.
On the evening of the 1st of August 1944, the 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards moved to a position just to the north of the village of St Martin des Besaces. At first light the following morning Nos. 1 and 3 Squadrons moved through the village to La Tourneur and then to Catheolles where the two Squadrons split with No. 3 Squadron by-passing Courteil and Montchamp before reaching the village of La Marvindiere. No. 1 Squadron, which had been unable to leave the roads, lost two tanks early in the advance. In the evening all three of the reconnaissance Squadrons moved into the area of La Marvindiere where they were under heavy shelling, mortar and sniper fire throughout the night. They held these positions until the 5th of August when they were withdrawn at 5am. They had suffered casualties during this period of three officer and even other ranks killed with twenty other ranks wounded. Richard Whiskard was among the dead.
His commanding officer described his death as: - “One of our major losses.”
His father wrote the following after the death of his son: -
“My son was killed, early in August in Normandy. A fellow officer sent me a sketch map of the spot where he was buried. I sent this to a niece of mine, who is a nursing sister with the British Army, and two months after his death, she was able to visit the place. She found that at the foot of the grave where he and the driver of his tank, who was killed by the same shell, were buried, a flowering shrub had been planted and was in full blossom. At the head of the grave, under each of the two crosses, was a vase of fresh flowers. This had been done by the French family who lived nearby. When they saw my niece, they came to the grave and brought her back with them to the farm house and gave her tea. They told her that they would always, as long as they themselves were there, tend the grave. I feel that this may, perhaps give comfort to some of your readers. Other French people, no doubt, have done, and will do, the same.”
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Mildenhall and on the memorial at University College, Oxford.
He is buried at St Charles de Percy War Cemetery Plot I, Row G, Grave 14.