William Basil Driffield

A Chaplain with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment, William died on 18th of August 1942 at the age of 37. 

William was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, on 13 May 1905, a son of William and Jessie Rebecca Driffield. In 1911 his family were living at The Avenue, Knaresborough. In the 1920s his parents lived at 3 Coppice Drive, Ripon, and by 1939 they were living at Goats Hill, Sheringham. Subsequently they moved to Lowestoft and lived at 2 The Avenue. 

William was ordained and in 1939 was living at 27 Rathbone Road, Saint Pancras, London. The 1939 Register describes him as a 'clerk in holy orders'. On 1 January 1942 he travelled to Rangoon to join the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment and he became a Chaplain at the Delhi Cantonment.  

William contracted encephalitis and died on 18 August 1942 and was buried on the same day.