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James Lugard WILLCOCKS [1893-1963]

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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-06-26 16:44
Names
Given: 
James Lugard
Family: 
Willcocks
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1893-01-05
Death
Date: 
1963-06-30

Commissioner of Prisons.

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by hojoyce on Sat, 2012-07-07 00:02.

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Willcocks, James Lugard
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Submitted by Mamacrystal on Mon, 2012-09-03 08:26.

Should read James Lugard Willcocks, not Eugard. Does anybody have a photo of James or his wife Muriel?

Cheers
De

Submitted by Mamacrystal on Mon, 2012-09-03 08:24.

Re James Lugard Willcocks

The following information is from England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858 – 1966

 

James L Willcocks died on the 30th June 1963 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Haywards Heath.

Cheers

De

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-09-03 08:30.

Corrected & updated, thanks. (If he is mentioned on other family trees, please could you let us know the link to them?)

Regards, David

Submitted by David on Tue, 2014-02-04 21:49.

From page 110 of a family history at: http://www.corbould.com/tcgbook/pdf_ocr/TCG-15_Way_of_Spaynes_Hall_ocr.pdf

MAJOR JAMES LUGARD WILLCOCKS, D.S.O. (1918), M.C., late Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) ; b. 1893 ; educ. at Cheltenham College ; served in the European War 1914-18 (despatches, D.S.O., M.C.) ; retired in 1922 and entered Colonial Civil Service ; now Assistant Commissioner, Kenya ; member of the Naval and Military Club.

Married in 1916, MURIEL KATHLEEN, dau. of the late Colonel Gordon PRICE, I.M.S., of Ootacamund, India, and has :-

1b. WENDY WINIFRED WILLCOCKS, b. at Bermuda 15 Nov. 1919.