Name
Ernest De Vaynes Wintle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/02/1916
50
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
12th Indian Cavalry
(Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 45 and 65.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Widcombe War Memorial Bath War Memorial
Pre War
Born on 23 Feb 1865 and baptised on 29 Mar 1865 in Umritsur, Bengal, India son of Maj. Gen. Alfred and Helen (Twine) Wintle. Educated at the United Services College 1876-80. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army on 6 Feb 1884 and appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 12th Cavalry on 6 Feb 1910. He married in 1893 in Kensington, London.
Wartime Service
He was killed in action at Nasiriyah in Mesopotamia.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
