Kenneth Sellwood was born in Thame in 1925 the son of Mr. and Mrs. William John Sellwood, of Tetsworth, Oxfordshire and he attended Lord Williams’s School, Thame.

He served as a Lance Corporal, 14499730, in the 10th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry during World War Two. The HLI were part of the 15th Division which landed in Normandy a few days after D-Day and progressed through northern France. He died in August 1944 in the major thrust made from Caumont l’Evente towards Vire, to drive a wedge between the German 7th Army and the Panzer Group West.

Although a Scottish Regiment the Highland Light Infantry had less than half Scots in its ranks. In the cemetery at St Charles de Percy there are ten burials from his battalion: five from Oxon/Bucks and only three from Scotland.

Kenneth was killed on 6th August 1944 at just 18½ years of age and buried in St Charles de Percy Cemetery, Calvados, France and is remembered in Lord Williams’s School Memorial Board.