Lieutenant Armar Lowry Corry Wintle

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Date published: 26/10/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 22/08/1917
Age at death: 20
Cemetery: Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: IV. O. 1.
Information: Lieutenant Armar Lowry Corry Wintle, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who died on 22nd August from wounds received in action on the 16th August, was the only son of the late Colonel FitzHardinge Wintle, 87th Punjabis, and of Mrs. Wintle, Banba, Bray, Co. Wicklow. He was educated at the College, Newton Abbot, Devon, and then went to the Army School, Holyport, Maidenhead, and removed with that school to the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and afterwards to Worcester School. He belonged to the O.T.C. Immediately on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, which he received in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He went with his regiment to France in 1915. He was severely wounded on St. Patrick's Day, 1916, and was for some months in hospital. He returned to the front in April, 1917, and was recommended for the Military Cross for gallantry in the action in which he fell.