Leutnant der Reserve Carl Friedrich Lothar VON WURMB (1912)

Infantry Regiment 75, Cavalry
Born 17 April 1893
Killed in action 23/24 March 1918, aged 24
Buried at Fourdrain Communal Cemetery, Aisne, France.

Carl von Wurmb was the son of Major Louvard von Wurmb, of Thüringen, Germany.

He was educated at the Grand Ducal Wilhelm-Ernst Gymnasium, Weimar, and at the Universities of Geneva and Munich, before coming to Merton as a Rhodes Scholar to read Law in 1912. A keen rower, he took part in both torpids and summer eights while at the College.

During the war he fought on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, and was awarded the Iron Cross (1st & 2nd Class).

He was killed in action, on 23/24 March 1918.