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Name: WILLOUGHBY, Nesbit Edward (Lieut.)
Nee: Son of Col. Herbert Percival Willoughby
Birth Date: 4 July 1878 Mussoorie, India
Death Date: 1916 killed in action, France, missing since 19 Nov
Nationality: British
First Date: 1902
Profession: April 1903 - expedition against the Nandi
Area: Nandi
Book Reference: Moyse, Debrett, EAHB 1904
War Service: Canadian Expeditionary Force; E.Surrey Regt.; East African Rifles, Uganda 1903
School: Felsted, RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
Du Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 50th Battn. the Canadian Expeditionary Force, second son of the late Colonel Herbert Percival Willoughby, RA, by his wife Mary Louisa, daughter of Thomas Allen Brown, of Agra, India. Born Jubberkhut, near Mussoorie, Northwestern provinces, India, 4 July 1878, educated Felstead School, Essex, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted second lieut .the East Surrey Regiment; proceeded to India with his regiment, being seconded to the East African Rifles, Uganda, 1903; was invalidated home in 1904; resigned his permission the following year; went to Canada in 1906, unsettled at Montreal, and served in the Canadian Pacific Railway in March 1915, as a navvy; enlisted at Calgary, Alberta; came to England with the 2nd Canadian contingent the same year; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 5 August 1916; was reported missing after the taking of Regina Trench, in the Battle of the Somme 19 November following, and subsequent information stated that he had been killed in action on that date, going over the parapet of Regina Trench. The Minister of Militia wrote: the heavy loss which you and the nation have sustained would indeed be depressing were it not redeemed by the knowledge that the brave comrade for whom we mourn performed his duties fearlessly and well as became a good soldier, and gave his life for the great cause of human liberty and the defence of the empire.