#10460, Richard (Dick) Morley FLETCHER

Dick Fletcher was educated at Lindisfarne College Preparatory School, Westcliff on Sea; St Paul's School and Worcester College, Oxford.

Dick Fletcher donated the Morley-Fletcher Room, part of Worcester College's Linbury Building at Oxford University to be used by college societies and for social purposes.

In WW1, served as a Second Lieutenant 2/9th Batallion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), 4 5 1915; Captain 2nd /9th 9 London Regiment; 1917, slightly gassed; then Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps, 1918; WW2: Squadron Leader, RAF; Solicitor 1924; some time with the Inland Revenue; with Corbin Green & Cook, Bedford Square, WC1; retired 31 7 1946.

Dick was cremated and his ashes buried under the Dawn Cypress tree in the garden of The Lodge, Little Tew, Oxon.

Taken from the records of Robert (Robin) Morley Fletcher
(Vanessa Griffith, December 2015)