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St. Patrick's Wapping
Pray for the Soul of BERTRAND WARD DEVAS
Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment
Guardian of the Poor for Stepney
Manager of St. Patrick's Boys
Club. Founder of the Treatment
Centre at Pier Head Killed
at Serre in France Nov. 13th. 1916.
Aged 34 years.
RIP
Bertrand Ward Devas
1882-1916
Educated at Stoneyhurst and Corpus Christi Oxford.
"Among the new Barristers "called" this week, are Mr. Bertrand Ward Devas, B.A. (Oxon.)..." (Tablet 1st February 1908)
"A marriage has been arranged and will take place immediately, between Bertrand Ward Devas, of 5, Pier Head, Wapping, E., Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, son of the late Charles Stanton Devas, and Elizabeth Helen Fleet, daughter of J. W. and Mrs. Fleet, of New Cottage, Brockenhurst, Hants." (Tablet 11th September 1915)
"It would be difficult to find a more remarkable Catholic family on the Western Front than that of the Devases. Charles Stanton Devas was distinguished for becoming a Catholic while a schoolboy at Eton. He later went on to Balliol, married, and had nine children. One became a nun, three were priests: Francis SJ, Raymund OP and Philip OFM. All three became army chaplains. Two other sons went into the Army; one was killed. Between them the five brothers were awarded three OBES, one DSO and two MCS"
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