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Name : Richard Douglas Wightman. Son of Richard Wightman and Ellen Gertrude Wightman (née Jackman) of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Born 1887 Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Married 1916 Cecilia C Burton, (registered Sep qtr 1916 Chelsea, London) |
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Census Information :
1891 : Richard and Ellen Wightman, with their children including Richard aged 3, are at 3, Slovens Bush, Sydney Terrace, Ventnor. Richard Wightman is an Umbrella Maker and Working Cutler. 1901 : Richard and Ellen Wightman, with their children including Richard aged 13, are at 51 High Street, Ventnor. Richard Wightman is an Umbrella Maker. Richard D Wightman is a Grocer's Porter. 1911 : Richard and Ellen Wightman, with two children, are at 51 High Street, Ventnor. Richard Wightman is an Umbrella Maker. 1911 : Richard Douglas Wightman, aged '22' (sic) is a Trooper with the 1st Life Guards, in St Pancras, London. |
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Service details : Trooper 2662 Richard Douglas Wightman, 1st Life Guards. | |
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Died : 14 March 1919 aged 32 Buried at : Brompton Cemetery, London. CWGC record ... |
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Commemorated on these Memorials :
Ventnor War Memorial County War Memorial, Carisbrooke Castle. |
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Documents :
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, March 6, 1908 Page 4 Mr. Richard Douglas Wightman, son of Mr. Richard Wightman, of Ventnor, has this week succeeded in passing for enlistment into the 1st Life Guards, stationed at Hyde Park Barracks.
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Friday, September 11, 1914 Page 4 LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. - Several Ventnor families have received letters from relatives at the front, among them being Mrs. Glaire, whose husband is attached to the Hants Regiment with the Expeditionary Force, and Mr. and Mrs. Wightman, of High Street, whose son is in the 1st Life Guards.
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Friday, July 2, 1915 Page 1 Trooper R.D. Wightman (son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Wightman), has been home from the front on leave after active participation in many of the recent engagements in Flanders. He has come out of them without a scratch, and his old friends were delighted to see him looking so well, notwithstanding that he only recently came out of hospital.
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Friday, March 28, 1919 Page 3 DEATH OF TROOPER R.D. WIGHTMAN. - The funeral took place last Thursday at Brompton Cemetery of Trooper Richard Douglas Wightman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wightman, of Ventnor. He belonged to the 1st Life Guards and wore the Mons ribbon. Trooper Wightman , who was only 32, died from the effects of wounds in the head. The funeral was of a military character and was attended by Lord Penryhn, Lieut.-Col. Lord Brassey, about 100 men of the Guards, with band, firing party etc. The mourners were Mrs. R.D. Wightman (the widow), Mr. R. Wightman (father), Mr. A.E. Wightman (brother), Mrs. Burton, Mrs. Wilson, and several nurses from Queen's Gate Hospital. The band played the Dead March from "Saul" and Chopin's Funeral March on the route to the Cemetery. Wreaths were from his wife, father, mother, brothers and sisters, the Commandant Queen's Gate Hospital, Mrs. Henry Kahn, (1 Queen's Gate), Nurses Fripp, Church, Owen and Steward, Boys of the 4th Ward, Gus and Lil, Aunt Polly and Jennie, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Leslie, Vic, Jack and Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Officers and Troopers of 1st Life Guards, brother Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Sisters Gobbett and Lane, Nurses Stafford, Andrew, Atkins, Rooper, Hirst, Bishop and Halt. |
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Further Information :
Brompton Cemetery Mitchie Hospital, Queen's Gate, London Lost Hospitals of London Hyde Park Barracks 1st and 2nd Life Guards |
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Acknowledgments :
Janet Griffin for newspaper research |
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Page status :
Page last updated : 27 February 2012 (links and newspaper reports) |
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