William de Pass

Lieutenant William Hugh David de Pass was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 14 October 1892, in Kensington, the only son of stockbroker Charles Benjamin and Mabel Kate de Pass (née Benjamin), of London and Australia, respectively. He was educated at Wellington College before entering Corpus Christi in October 1911. After the outbreak of war, de Pass cut short his studies before his final year to enlist in the public schools battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.Pelican Record Vol. XIV], No. 5, ccc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2015. He was commissioned in April 1915, in the 6th Battalion.
De Pass went to the Western Front in May 1916, and became attached to his regiment's 13th Battalion.. He was wounded on the 18th when struck by shrapnel from a British shell during his battalion's attack at Guillemont.13th (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regiment – War diary, 13thmiddlesexww1.wordpress.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015. He spent four months in a hospital, and did not return to his battalion until September 1917. He died on 25 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive, when his company was driven out of the village of Puzeau. His obituary states that it was believed that he was killed by a shell which exploded among his platoon.
He is buried in Fouquescourt British Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*de Pass, William Hugh David, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
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