Flying
Officer J. D. L. Welby, Royal Air Force, late R.A.M.C., Lincolnshire
Regiment, Leicestershire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who was
wounded in a combat in March 1918, while serving as an Observer
in No. 59 Squadron.
John
Doolan Lillis “Jack” Welby, who was born in 1888, originally
went out to France with a Mobile Field Hospital of the R.A.M.C.,
but transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment in early 1916, when
he was appointed a Sergeant in the 11th Battalion. Having then been
transferred to the 2nd Battalion later in the same year, he was
commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment and transferred to
the Royal Flying Corps in September 1917. Qualifying as an Observer,
he joined No. 59 Squadron out in France, but was wounded in the
knee when his R.E. 8 was shot up in a combat in March 1918. Evacuated
home, he ended the War at R.A.F. Cranwell and was demobilised in
November 1919. Welby, who settled in Dulwich and became a banker,
died aged 92 years. source |