Desmond George Grenville Levason
Tuesday 27 March 1917
Army Rank: CaptainNumber: Regiment: 1st/1st Battalion Herefordshire RegimentBorn: 1892Died: 27th March, 1917Age: 25Cause of Death: Died of wounds Commemorated at Hereford Cathedral School, Hereford Cathedral and Gaza War Cemetery.Son of Peyton Grenville Levason and Elizabeth Levason, of Wallington House, Hereford; husband of Ida Levason Nee Milnes, of "Odersfelt," 1, Fisher Drive, Southport. Brother to Cecil Grenville Levason (OH) Photograph of D.G.G. Levason from The Herefordian, July, 1917Records of Hereford Cathedral School, by Major J.C. Earles-White (1931) gives an account of Levason’s life after school:Levason (1895-1903) Desmond George Grenville.Birmingham University.Birmingham University O.T.C.Gazetted Herefordshire Regt., 1914.Served at Suvla Bay and Egypt, promoted Captain. Mortally wounded at Gaza, Palestine, His war time marriage to Miss Ida Milnes as recorded in the Hereford Times The July, 1917 edition of The Herefordian included his obituary:Captain Desmond George Grenville Levason, Hereford Regt., died on March 27th, 1917, from wounds received at the Battle of Gaza (Palestine). He was the son of Mr. and Mrs Peyton Grenville Levason, of Wallington House, Hereford. On leaving school he went to Birmingham University and studied there as a dental student. While at Birmingham he served in the University O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission in the Herefords, in whose ranks he had previously served. He took part in the lauding at Suvla Bay, where he was reported “missing,” but a week later he was reported to be suffering from dysentery and in hospital at Alexandria. He then contracted typhoid, and was eventually invalided home. Since then he returned to the Battalion in Egypt and served with it there until mortally wounded at Gaza. He had only been married 15 months, and was only 25 years of age. He was at the School from 1900—1907.