Other Information:William was educated at Stoneygate Preparatory School, Leicester; at Mount St Mary’s College, Chesterfield, where he was captain of the school; and at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, where he gained a science scholarship. He obtained the diplomas of the Conjoint Board in 1915, and was intending to take the final M.B. after the war. At the hospital, he was an athlete, being captain of the Association football team and a member of the Rugby fifteen. In February 1915, he took a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. and went to the front on 14th June. He served with the 54th Field Ambulance, to which he became transport officer and later adjutant. On the morning of his death a squad of stretcher-bearers bringing in a wounded man reported that one of their number had fallen by the way, and was, they thought killed. William went out at once alone to look for the missing man and was killed instantly by a shell. His senior officer described him as a man eminently suited for the double profession of doctor and soldier, and as untiring in his devotion to duty. As transport officer “he used to care for his horses as if they were sick men.” William was the elder son of Mr W C MacAlevey of Leicester.
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