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Second Lieutenant VICTOR GEORGE URSELL

Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

8th Bn., attd. 7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARRAS MEMORIAL

Bay 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Body found 17 days later deep in enemy lines, but grave lost afterwards through shell fire. Son of Alfred William and Ellen Jane Ursell, of Waterloo House Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Also served as liason and intelligence Officer at Salonika. Mathematical Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford; first in the 1st Class Honours List.-Math. Mods. in 1913; was proxime accessit in the Univ. Junior School Exam., 1914.
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