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Wormell, Rowland Guy de Lang, son of Rev. Rowland Wormell, Vicar of Christ Church Dartford, Kent, and Maud Isabel, d. of Capt. Clark, Harbour Master at Bombay; b. 27 Apr. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (R); left July 1927; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1933, practised at Harlow, Essex; 2nd Lieut. REME Jan. 1942, transf. Judge Advocate General's Dept (Capt); d. 1971.

Worthington, Arthur Little, son of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (qv); b. 11 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left Mar. 1936; Harvard Univ.; Field Artillery US Army in WW2 (Lieut.); manager Côte D'Azur-Monaco region First Nat. City Bank of New York; Chevalier Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium); m. 17 May 1941 Burdeene, d. of Paul Hill Irvin of Forest Hills NY; d. 8 Aug. 1983.

Worthington, Lawrence Valentine, brother of Arthur Little Worthington (qv); b. 6 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1938; Princeton Univ.; USNR 1943-6; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., res. asst 1946-50, res. assoc. 1950-8, physical oceanographer 1958-63, sen. scientist 1963, chairman Dept of Physical Oceanography 1974; m. 1952 Ruth Scott, d. of R. C. Mc Guinness of Denver, Colorado; d. May 1986.

Wyke-Smith, Edward Searle, son of Edward A. Wyke-Smith of Carshalton, Surrey, mining engi­neer; b. 23 Jan. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (R); left July 1933; RE 1939-45 (Lieut.), MC (Italy) Apr. 1945; m. 19 Sept. 1952 Sheila Mary, d. of W. H. Demel of Earlswood, Warks.; d. 2007.

Wylie, Michael, son of Reginald Wylie, electrical engineer, of St Margaret’s, Kent, and Margaret Laura, d. of Laurence Edelmann Chalmers, banker, of Bickley, Kent; b. 8 May 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left July 1944; BA (Lond. ) 1950; asst. master Varndean Coll. GS Brighton, Sussex 1951; dep. dir. British Families Education Service BAOR 1961; HM Windsor Boys’ Sch. Hamm, Germany, 1964-; HM Inspector of Schs. 1969, seconded Schs. Council 1978-9; Staff Inspector (Planning) 1980, (Services Education) 1981; retd. 1985; m. 1963 Joan, d. of Walter Booth of St Anne’s-on-Sea, Lancs; d. 29 May 2003.

Wyner, Samuel Edward Alexander, son of Edward Wyner of Gerrards Cross, Bucks; b. 8 Sept. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left July 1941; Univ. of Lond., MRCS LRCP MB 1954; gen. med. practitioner, Doncaster, Yorks; d. 1971.

Yonge, Martin Godwin, son of Ernest Adams Yonge, of Hendon, sometime music master at the school and at Eton, and Margaret Mary, d. of James Thomas Godwin; b. 12 July 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (R); left Dec. 1938; Sgt Observer RAFVR; trained in S. Africa May to Dec. 1941; d. of cerebro-spinal meningitis on board ship to the Middle East 22 Dec. 1941.

Martin Godwin Yonge was born at Paddington, London on the 12th of July 1921 the only son of Ernest Adams Yonge, a music master at Westminster School, and Margaret Mary (nee Godwin) Yonge of 19, Shirehall Lane, Hendon in Middlesex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1934 to December 1938. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an Observer and rose to the rank of Sergeant.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 55.

Yorke, Philip, son of Maj. Henry Reginald Yorke MC, of Corscombe, Dorchester, and Beatrix Victoire, d. of Capt. George Staunton Lynch-Staunton, 14th Hussars; b. 31 Dec. 1905; adm. from Harrow Sch. Apr. 1921 (R); left Apr. 1922; a farmer; m. 30 Apr. 1945 Elsie May, d. of E. Heasman of Brighton; d. 27 May 1997.

Youatt, David, son of Gerald Youatt FCA, chartered accountant, and Minnie Louise, d. of Edward Spiers of Hendon; b. 12 Dec. 1910; adm. May 1924 (R); left July 1928; an electrical engi­neer, DFH 1932, AMIEE 1943; RNVR 1939-45, Sqdn Torpedo Officer 15th Cruiser Sqdn (Lieut.-Cdr); m. 19 Apr. 1947 Katharine Augusta, sister of Richard Seymour Chalk (qv); d. 15 Aug. 1976.

Young, Derek Gordon, son of James Gordon Young, banker, and Florence Esther, d. of Otto Schuler; b. 18 July 1904; adm. Sept. 1916 (R); left July 1921; an industrial editor; d. Oct. 1991.