1 July 1916 (aged 21) Montauban-de-Picardie, France
Buried
Carnoy Military Cemetery (grave ref. E. 28)
Allegiance
British Empire
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1914 – 1916
Rank
Captain
Unit
8th Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, part of the 18th Division
Battles/wars
World War I
Wilfred (Billie) Nevill (14 July 1894 – 1 July 1916) was an officer attached to the East Surrey Regiment in the First World War. He became famous as the officer who kicked a football into No Man's Land at the start of the Battle of the Somme.[1] He was promptly killed in action while leading an assault on a German position.
^College, Jesus. "Wilfred Percy Nevill Captain, East Surrey Regiment, attached East Yorkshire Regiment". Jesus College University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
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in the men's singles; William Nevill Cobbold (1882, 1883, 1887), Charles Lacy Sweet (1884), James Dwight (1885), Wilfred Baddeley (1888), Herbert Baddeley...
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to Theosophy. Mumbai, India: Theosophy Company (published 1997). Drury, Nevill (2004), The New Age: Searching for the Spiritual Self, London, England,...
slave, opponent of slavery in the United States, school founder. Samuel Nevill (1837–1921), the first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin and, later, Primate of...
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distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed...
5334/pp.73. ISSN 1759-2941. Drury, Nevill (2012). "The Thelemic Sex Magick of Aleister Crowley". In Drury, Nevill (ed.). Pathways in Modern Western Magic...
archaeology and ethnohistory Morris Mott (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996), British physicist Peter De Mott (1947–2009), American...
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Television film A House that Died. He also received a special award from the Wilfred Owen Association "in recognition of his contribution to war poetry". Scannell's...
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