Name
John Richard Duvall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Chaplain 4th Class
Army Chaplains’ Department
Attached 7th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SARIGOL MILITARY CEMETERY, KRISTON
C. 443.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born on 17 Dec 1888 in Culford, Suffolk only son of John William and Anna (Wright) Duvall later of Walton Road, Ware.
Educated at Sherborne School, Selwyn College, Cambridge (MA) and Ely Theological College. Ordained in 1912 he was a curate in Liverpool and later Vice Principal, St Boniface College in 1914. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
He obtained a chaplaincy in the Army in Jul 1915 and served in France and then in Greece where he was killed in action while in charge of the forward stretcher bearers.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
