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Guy Ernest Fitzgerald Wethered

 Guy Ernest Fitzgerald Wethered

Person details

Forename(s) Guy Ernest Fitzgerald
Surname Wethered
Rank Major
Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment
Age 24
Death Died of wounds
Place of Death Far East > Burma
Date of Death 22/11/1944
Year of Entry 1933
House Letter B
School Notes Musician - Wharton Prize (x2)
Comments 'Killed at Pinwe while trying to help some wounded men back.' http://glosters.tripod.com/ww2off.html
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit 10th Battalion
Prefect School Prefect; Head of Social
Military Decorations
Album Number 23
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery Burma > Taukkyan
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Christ Church, Oxford; Oxford Blue; International Half-Miler
Prep School Cordwalles. Camberley
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary February 25 1945. Died of wounds in Burma in November, 1944, Guy Ernest Fitzgerald Wethered, Major, Gloucestershire Regt. (Nugee's, B, 1933-38), son of Colonel J. R. Wethered. O.R. Guy Wethered had a most successful school time. He was Head of his Social and a School Prefect, in the XV, in the Hockey XI, and he won many of the events in the sports. He also won the Wharton prize as the best pianist in the school. He went on to Christ Church where he represented Oxford in the Relays and in the University Sports at the half-mile. His best performance was to win the half in record time for Oxford and Cambridge v. Harvard and Yale - a fine performance for a freshman. After his period in the ranks, he was gazetted to the Gloucestershires, his father's regiment, in 1940. Such is the bare record. It is not possible in this short space to do justice to his fine and lovable character. In letters from Burma, we get glimpses of him. The Chaplain writes :-"He was gentle and courageous and devoted to his men. I knew him as a sincere Christian." His Brigadier writes:-"His example, keenness and guts, were an inspiration to the whole regiment, all of whom would follow him anywhere." His Divisional General says that he would have been given a decoration had he lived. He had taken an enemy machine gun by himself - using grenades, then a rifle, and finishing up by striking with his tin hat. Then he went out to bring in a wounded officer and was mortally wounded. It is hard to bear the loss of the bravest and the best, and high on the list of these stands the name of Guy Wethered.
Service Number 134368
Place of Birth