Lieutenant Colonel Walter Edwin VENOUR 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
Died 31 October 1914 aged 50 Shot dead by Germans dressed in Gurkha uniforms taken from the dead.
Son of the late Lt. Gen. Edwin Venour, H M E I Co. (Indian Army), and Jessie Margaret Anderson, of Upton-on-Severn, Worcester, husband of Annie L Venour, 61 Warwick Avenue, Bedford.
London Gazette. India Office, August 8, 1911.
The KING has approved of the following
promotions of Officers of the Indian Army,
Indian Medical Service and Indian Army
Departments: —
INDIAN ARMY.
Majors to be Lieutenant-Colonels.
Dated 15th May, 1911.
Walter Edwin Venour, Commandant, 58th
Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force).
At rest at Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Commemorated on a family headstone at
Longhope All Saints Churchyard, Gloucestershire.
