In Memory Of

WHALLEY, RICHARD CYRIL RAE

Service Details
Age:
48
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
60648
Rank:
Major
Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Date of Death:
1944-06-11
Cause of Death:
Died of lobar pneumonia, at Addis Ababa
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
4. B. 11.
Cemetery:
ADDIS ABABA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Ethiopia
Additional Information
Decorations:
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Son of Frederick Herbert and Margaret Rae Whalley, of Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa. Wrote the book "Slaves and Ivory: letters from Capt. Richard C.R. Whalley, British Consul at Maji, S.W. Abyssinia 1930-1936"