Name
William Neville Pitt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/08/1916
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY
1F. 19
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
St Mary’s Church, Stansted, Kent
Pre War
Born on 12 Sep 1880 in Bombay, India son of Col. William Pitt C.M.G. and Mary James (Brindley) Pitt of Fairseat House, Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent. Educated at Haileybury College 1894-96. He married Lucy Graham Walker in Jul 1911 in Devon and had two children.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 4 Jan 1899. Served in South Africa 1900-02. He entered France on 13 May 1915. Died in No 1 Casualty Clearing Station.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
