Notes
Ged Martin (see References) offers this brief biography: ‘Killed in action five days after his twenty-first birthday, W.B. Wells Durrant was 'a fluent and agreeable speaker' who had been elected to the committee of the Cambridge Union as early as his first year — encouraging a reasonable hope that he might rise to the Presidency. He was also 'a moderate athlete, and universally liked.'[46] The cox and three oarsmen of the 1914 May Boat were killed, and a fourth was wounded. However, rowing was a minority interest in Magdalene, and it would be unsafe to draw deductions from this record, however tragic.'