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Born in London on 1 February 1888, the 1st son of Henry George Willink, a barrister, and Mary Grace [Ouvry] of Burghfield, Berkshire, he was educated at Eton College (1901-1907) and then Corpus where he achieved a 2nd class degree in Modern History in 1911 but was Secretary and then Captain of the Boat Club (1908-1911) and College Captain (1909-1911). He was called to the Bar in the Inner Temple in 1914 but, as a former member of the University Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps , he was mobilised on 4 August 1914. He served in France where he was killed 4 years later after winning the Military Cross and being Mentioned in Dispatches in 1917.