Doughty-Wylie's Grave

Doughty-Wylie's Grave is situated near the V Beach Cemetery.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Date of Death: 26/04/1915

Age: 46

Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers  attd. as G.S.O.2 to H.Q. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

Awards: V C, C B, C M G, Twice Mentioned in Despatches

Grave Reference Cemetery: SEDDEL-BAHR MILITARY GRAVE

Doughty-Wylie's Grave

Additional Information:

Son of H. M. Doughty, of Theberton Hall, Suffolk, and Edith, his wife (nee Cameron); husband of Lilian O. Doughty-Wylie. Second Class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh.

Citation

An extract from "The London Gazette", No 29202, dated 23rd June 1915, records the following: - "On 26th April 1915 subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brigadier- General and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieutenant- Colonel Doughty-Wylie and Captain Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd el Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy`s position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine-guns and pom-poms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory."