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Maj. Arthur John Byng Wavell MC.
British Army Welsh Regiment
from:7 Egerton Gardens, South Kensington
(d.9th Jan 1916)
Arthur Wavell was killed in action on 9th January 1916 near Mwele, British East Africa defending a position guarding the Uganda Railway while in command of the Arab Rifles a force raised to protect Mombasa. He is buried in the Mwele Ndogo Military Graveyard in Kenya.