Member of Parliament

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Education & Career :

Member of Parliament

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

THE HON. LIONEL WALROND, M.P. THE Hon. W. Lionel Charles Walrond, M.P. for the Tiverton Division, President of the Tivertonian Association, and a Vice- President of the London Devonian Association, died in Scotland on November 2, 1915, at the age of 39. He was the only son of first Baron Waleran, formerly Chief Whip of the Unionist party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire, and was born on May 22, 1876. In 1904 he married Lottie, eldest daughter of George Coats, one of the captains of British industry, and there are two sons, his heir being William George Hood Walrond, who was born on March 29, 1905. Although it was not the lot of Mr. Walrond to fall upon the field of battle, to him nevertheless belongs a share of the honour of those hundreds of Britain's best sons who have laid down their lives for the fair fame of their country, and to his name a name already writ large on the roll of the country's service is due a place upon its roll of honour. His life was sacrificed for his country just as truly as if he had died of wounds on foreign service. With a heart greater than the capacity of his physical frame, a body never robust, and still further weakened by his application to public work, he sought with eagerness to take his part in the. fight for liberty, and in the early days of the war volunteered for service. No less nobly minded and feeling no less the imperious call of duty, his devoted wife urged and encouraged him. In the meantime he threw himself into the task of recruiting for the army with industrious zeal, and a month or so later the wish of his heart was granted when he received a commission in the Army Service Corps. On December 12, 1914, he sailed from Southampton for France, Mrs. Walrond having in the meantime shouldered her share of duty by turning the family seat at Bradfield into a convalescent home for soldiers which she personally superintended. As Mr. Walrond said himself, rather by way of disappointment and complaint, the A.S.C. was not a fighting corps, but its duties put such an unaccustomed tax upon his physique that almost from the first he endured more than many a robust man would experience in the actual fighting line. Suddenly deprived of those comforts to which his position entitled him at home, the exposure and anxiety, the strain of fresh and arduous duties were an immense tax. Yet he endured bravely and cheerfully. An incipient throat trouble, contracted as soon as he got out, did not yield to treatment, and after about three months' active service, Mr. Walrond was ordered home with acute laryngitis. His enforced return went much against the grain of his wishes, for his heart was in his new work, and he was constantly chafing to be back in France. Bearing his disappoint- ment with characteristic bravery, he set himself, under skilled advice and assisted by the nursing of his wife, to accomplish his recovery as speedily as possible. The bracing air of Scotland, his wife's home, was tried, as were all other means which medical science could suggest. The very anxiety with which he desired his restoration to health perhaps fretted him and made recovery more difficult. England has indeed lost a worthy son. Western Weekly News.

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Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley