Captain GERALD WILLIAM DEIGHTON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Suffolk Regiment
"D" Coy. 7th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 03 July 1916
Age 23 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Mentioned in Despatches, Military Cross
- Additional Info Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Son of Louisa Ellen Deighton, of "Little St. Bernard's," Cambridge Rd., Great Shelford, Cambridge, and the late Lt. Col. Frederick Deighton (R.A.M.C.) Surgeon, of Cambridge. Scholar of Eton College, and of King's College, Cambridge. Classical Honours degree, B.A. 1914.
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