Willis, Richard

Unit: 9th Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Date of death: 15 May 1916

Age at death: 28

Cause of death: Killed in action

Place of burial/commemoration: Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi

From the Pauline Magazine: He went to Exeter College, Oxford, with a scholarship, where he played for the College XV, and returned to St. Paul’s as a master in September 1910. He was a very keen Pauline, and his services to the Old Pauline Football Club are well remembered. He left us in 1912.