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Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 4 January 1920, the 2nd son of Alfred William Whitley, he was educated at the Loretto School, Lothian and came up to Corpus in 1938. He passed his Classics Moderations in 1939 and a 2nd public exam in Ancient History in 1940, the year in which he was also President of the Sundial Society, but he then enlisted> He served with the Royal Horse Artillery in North Africa (at Alamein) and in Italy (where he survived being wounded) and was finally killed in action in Normandy on 3 August 1944 (aged 24). He is also commemorated on IWM 2689 in Halifax.