Second Lieutenant Vernon Theodore Fowler WINTER (1936)

Royal Engineers
Born 12 May 1918, in Richmond, Surrey 
Killed on active service 14 September 1940, aged 22
Buried at Bournemouth East Cemetery.

Vernon Winter was the son of Carl T Raoul Winter and Violet Scott, née Miller.

He was educated at a private school in Deal, Kent, and came up to Merton in 1936 to read Mathematics. Whilst at Merton he played both hockey and football for the college. He also performed with the College Dramatic Society.

He volunteered for the Royal Engineers within a few weeks of the outbreak of war, and spent six months training at Folkestone before being gazetted Second Lieutenant. He was killed in a mine-laying accident, aged 22, along with several other members of his Company.