Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of the late Reverend Thomas, and Mrs Partington of Netherfield Vicarage, Sussex. He was educated at “Summerfield”, Oxford, Radley and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he went with an exhibition in 1903, and took Honours in the Classical Tripos in 1907. He was a master at Oakham School for several years. He obtained a commission on the 9th October 1914. In 1915 he embarked for Australia in command of a Military escort of German prisoners, and then returned to India. In October 1916 his regiment was ordered to Mesopotamia, where he took part in the advance on Kut, and in the fierce fighting that ensued at Shatt el Hai where he was killed most probably from shell shock and heart failure, as he was found dead and unwounded in a Turkish trench with almost all his men wiped out by an explosion lying near him.