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Second Lieutenant W H Desprez


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Second Lieutenant Warwick Haynes DESPREZ, attached 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent  Regiment, (3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment),  killed in action, 24th August 1918, age 23.

1895, July or September, born Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, son of Ernest Haynes and Edith Desprez, of 31B, St. John's Road, Clifton, Bristol.

3rd November 1895, Tyndalls Park, St Mary, Gloucestershire, baptism of Warwick Haynes Desprez, son of Ernest Haynes and Edith Desprez.


1911 Census - 31B, St. John's Road, Clifton, Bristol - Ernest Haynes Desprez, head, age 44, married, goldsmith, employer, born Bristol; Edith Desprez, wife, age 40, married 16 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Hampstead, London; Warwick Haynes Desprez, son, age 15, single,  born Bristol; Peggy Humbert Desprez, daughter, age 11,  born Bristol; Elsie Southren Desprez, daughter, age 4,  born Bristol; Elsie Weber, governess, age 24, nursery governess, born Basle, Switzerland.


April 1918, posted BEF.

15th January 1919, Probate, Desprez Warwick Haynes of 31B, St. John's Road, Clifton, Bristol, temporary Lieutenant 7th Service Battalion, Royal West Kent  Regiment, died 24th August 1918 in France whilst in actual military service. Administration (with will) Bristol 15th January to Ernest Haynes Desprez, jeweller. Effects £337 15s 4d.

Buried at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII. G. 1., Somme, France.


London Gazette 6th August 1918.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants, from attached, unless otherwise stated, are transferred to Service Battalions, with seniority from dates shown:

W. H. Desprez (from Gloucestershire Regiment). 31 October 1917.


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