In Memory Of

MAPLES, WILLIAM EVELYN

Service Details
Age:
 36
Date of Birth:
 1880-02-02
Rank:
 Lieutenant Colonel
Unit 2:
 Commanding 6th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Regiment:
 Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Date of Death:
 1916-12-15
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, offensive against Kut, attacking with some 50,000 troops on the night of 13th/14th December 1916. Maples fell in action during this advance on the Tigris Line while commanding the 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 20.
Cemetery:
 BASRA MEMORIAL
Country:
 Iraq
Additional Information
Son of the late William and Elizabeth Maples, of "The Hut", Ashtead, Surrey. One of three Wykehamist brothers, another of whom, Captain Kenneth James Maples (G, 1890-1896), South Staffordshire Regiment, fell on May 16th 1915. He came to Winchester from Mr. Johnson's school at Ashtead, and played in Commoner XV. After a short period with the Militia he entered the Regular Army (Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment) in 1899. He served in South Africa from 1899-1902, and later on took part with the King's African Rifles in the Nandi and Somaliland campaigns. He travelled widely in East Africa, Abyssinia and the Himalayas, and was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1910, he went to India, and shortly before the war passed into the Staff College at Quetta though he resigned this three months later. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918