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Lieutenant Richard Sydney Willoughby DARVELL (1934)

Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Born 25 December 1915 in Knaresborough, West Yorkshire
Died of wounds received in action 14 April 1944, aged 28
Buried at Kohima War Cemetery, India; also commemorated on a panel in Charterhouse School Memorial Chapel, Godalming, Surrey.


Richard Darvell was the son of Sydney Darvell and Elsie Winifred, née Jones, of Lechlade, Gloucestershire.


He was at Charterhouse School from 1929 to 1933.