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William Darell (British Army officer)

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on 24 December 1916 when he succeeded W. L. White, who was twenty-two years his senior. Darell held the post for the rest of the war. He was mentioned in despatches in 1917 Darell remained in the army after the war becoming Colonel on 1 October 1920, with seniority from 1 January 1919. He was Deputy
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of his generation. He was initiated in the Studholme Lodge No 1591 on 24 March 1899, aged 21. He was passed to the second degree in the same lodge on 26 May 1899, and raised to the third degree in Argonauts Lodge No 2243 on 20 October 1899. Very unusually, just a month after his raising he became a
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Darell went on to join a large number of other lodges, many of them of prominent position within English Freemasonry, including: the Royal Somerset House & Inverness Lodge No 4, one of the founding lodges of the world's first
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in 1717; Foxhunters Lodge; Old Etonian Lodge; Household Brigade Lodge; Bard of Avon Lodge; and Royal Alpha Lodge, membership of which is at the personal invitation of the Grand Master.
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and Komatipoort (August 1900). From July 1901 he was signaling officer to a Mobile column. Following the end of the war, he return to the United Kingdom in August 1902.
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Director of Mobilisation and Recruiting at the War Office in 1920 and Assistant Adjutant-General, War Office, in 1921. After commanding 1st Battalion
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on 3 July 1915. He was awarded the DSO in 1915. His final promotion was to DA&QMG of
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In 1937 he was appointed Assistant Grand Master (the third most senior position) in the
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in the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley. In 1907 he won the Diamond Sculls beating
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for Warwickshire. He also held senior positions in most of the additional
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.
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and he was promoted assistant adjutant and quartermaster general of
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Elizabeth Joy Darell, who married Peter Julian Clive, son of Sir
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founder member of the Lodge of Assistance No 2773, becoming the
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Darell entered the Staff College in 1913 and on the outbreak of
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Darell died on 7 February 1954, aged 76, and was buried at
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where in a brilliant career he won the Sword of Honour.
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in the late eighteenth century. Darell was educated at
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from 1924 to 1928, he retired from the Army in 1929.
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and Hon. Magdalen Muir Mackenzie (a daughter of the
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Index

William Harry Verelst Darell
CMG
DSO
rower
Diamond Challenge Sculls
Henley Royal Regatta
Earley
Sir Lionel Darell, 5th Baronet
Darell family
East India Company
Eton College
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Coldstream Guards
second lieutenant
lieutenant
South Africa
Second Boer War
Orange Free State
Transvaal
Cape Colony
Belmont
Modder River
Magersfontein
Poplar Grove
Driefontein
Diamond Hill
Bergendal
World War I
Southampton
BEF

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