Wilkins, Claude Gilbert, 1883-?
Wilkins, Claude Gilbert, brother of Trevor Hamilton Wilkins (q.v.); b. June 4, 1883; adm. April 23, 1896 (H); left April 1899; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. Beds Regt. Sept. 5, 1916; Lieut. March 5, 1918.
Wilcox, Kenneth Theodore Dunbar, 1894-1915
Wilcox, Kenneth Theodore Dunbar, only son of the Rev. Alfred George Wilcox, Vicar of St. George's, Battersea, Surrey, temp. Chaplain to the Forces; b. Dec. 24, 1894; adm. May 4, 1905 (H); K.S. 1909; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1913, matric. Michael mas 1913; enlisted in P.S. Batt. Middlesex Regt. Sept. 13, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 8th (Serv.) Batt. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt. Oct. 17, 1914; went out to the western front Oct. 8, 1915; killed in action at Château Lahnkof, near Ypres, Nov. 8, 1915.
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, 1912-1975
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, 1915-2007
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, 1885-1908
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, 1913-1984
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, 1882-1957
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., 1892-?
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, 1905-1958
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.