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Mourant, R W B



Menin Gate

The Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium

Roland Walter Blundell Mourant

 

Remembered on:

Island (Bailiwick) Memorial, St Peter Port, Guernsey
St Peter Port Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Elizabeth College Roll of Honour

 

Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Roll no. 2354

 

At 8pm every evening, the Last Post is played inside the Menin Gate in remembrance.

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Lance Corporal Roland Walter Blundell Mourant, TFEM
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
01/01/1915


1914-15 Star

Son of James and Louisa Mourant, of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Husband of Alice Maud Mourant, of 12, Claremont Rd., Teddington, Middx.

Killed in action, aged 40 years.

 

Served with C. I. V. in the South African Campaign.

 

The first Channel Islander to become a freeman of the City of London since Admiral Saumarez in 1800. France 4/11/14 (Pte.)

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 

 

 

Courtesy of the Guernsey Press & Priaulx Library