Colonel ERNEST OCTAVIUS WIGHT
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Army Medical Corps
49th (West Riding) Div. Asst. Director of Medical Services
Date of Death
Died 19 December 1915
Age 57 years old
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- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of the late Dr. Robert Wight, M.D., F.R.S., and the late Mrs. Wight, of Grazeley Lodge, Shinfield, West Reading; husband of Janet Wight of Merivale, Heston, Hounslow. Served in the ushai (Burma) Expedition of 1892, also had the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal for saving life from drowning.
- Personal Inscription ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE JANET LESLIE 1866-1945
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