Talland Church Headstones

Headstone 238

~ Granite ~ Latin cross

Ancestry research – Marriage Records – On August 1920, at the Parish Church, Corsham, by the Rev. Winnington Ingram, CAPT. DONALD GORDON ROMANIS, M.C., Royal Artillery, son of the late W.F.J Romanis & Mrs Romanis, of Charterhouse, to WANDA MARY, daughter of the D.J Hilpern, Egyptian State Railways and the late Mrs Hilpern.

Andrews Newspaper Index Card

Capt. Romanis saw action in Lille, the Somme, Italy and Northern Russia. He also served in Dublin, India, China and Egypt – he received the Military Cross while serving for the Royal Garrison Artillery for distinguished service in connection with military operations in Italy.

He first saw action in and around Lille and was later at the battle of the Somme. In fact both he and his brother were at the Somme at the same time. Dr. W Hugo C. Romanis was in a field hospital and Capt. Donald Romanis was an Artillery officer in the area around Delville Wood. Surprisingly they did manage to meet up occasionally for ‘tea’.

‘The Romanis Family of Dinas Bal’- Polperro Family History Society J22