Second Lieutenant Richard HUTTON (1910)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Born 20 April 1891
Missing, presumed killed in action, 7 November 1914, aged 23
Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium.

Richard Hutton was the youngest son of Reverend Joseph Henry Hutton and Clarissa Marshall, née Barwick, of West Heslerton, Yorkshire.

He was educated at Chigwell and Marlborough College, before coming to Merton to read Classics.

He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 15 August 1914, and served in France and Belgium.

He was reported missing, presumed killed in action, near Ypres, on 7 November 1914.