Richard William Colvile Martin - St Gregory's church - Hemingstone, Suffolk - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial plaque to Richard William Colvile Martin of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

10 May 1901 Born – son of Lt Col Sir Richard Martin KCB KCMG and Lady Martin of Claydon, Ipswich, Suffolk.

    Sep 1914 - Wellington College, Berkshire to 1919

10 Jan 1919 - Entered Royal Military College, Sandhurst

14 July 1921 - Passed out from RMC, 58th in order of merit. Commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers

21 July 1921 - Joined 2 RWF in Ireland

    June 1924 - Won 440 yards in Army Individual athletics at Woolwich.

25 June 1924 - Represented Army in inter-service athletics

18 Feb 1926 - Adjutant 2 RWF to 18 July 1927 – date of death

18 July 1927 - Killed in motor-cycle accident at Bingen, Germany.

26 July 1927 - Funeral and burial at Hemingstone Church, Ipswich.

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