Humbercamps Communal Cemetery Extension, nr. Doullens
Eldest
son of Walter de Laci Devereux and Blanche Isobel Devereux, of Middlewood, St
Saviours, Jersey. Born at Scarning, Dereham, Norfolk. One of two brothers
who both fell at the age of 22.
Killed in action, aged 22 years.
Educated
at Victoria College, Perse School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
NEWS
ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 3 July 1916
Another
Old Victorian makes the Supreme Sacrifice. News has been received in the Island
that another Old Victorian, Lieutenant Humphrey William Devereaux, has made the
supreme sacrifice. This gallant officer was the son of Mr Devereaux who formerly
resided at Middlewood, St Saviour. He was at Victoria College from 1906-10 and
was a most popular and promising scholar. After leaving Jersey he was educated
at Cambridge and promptly responding to the call, he joined the 5th Battalion
South Staffordshire Regiment, now commanded by Lieutenant Colonel R R Raymer DSO,
an old College master, in February 1915. He was gazetted Lieutenant a few months
later and was seriously wounded in the fighting at the Hohenzolleren Redoubt on
13 October 1915. He returned to his Regiment in France in April 1916 and to the
regret of all his friends was killed in action on 26 June.
Commemorated on O V Memorial, Jersey
and St Saviours Parish Memorial, Jersey
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
