Lawrence Rowntree
Lawrence Edmund Rowntree was a British soldier, killed during the First World War. He was the son of John Wilhelm Rowntree of the Quaker Rowntree family and Constance Naish, and grandson of Joseph Rowntree.
Born in York, he was educated at Bootham School, and began to study medicine at King's College, Cambridge in 1913. On the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered for the Friends' Ambulance Unit and wrote a diary. He later joined the Royal Tank Regiment in 1916, and was injured in the buttocks. He was then commissioned as a 2nd Lt into the Royal Field Artillery in 1917 and was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele in November 1917.
He was buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery in Vlamertinge, Flanders.
His letters to his mother Constance, 1901-1917, are deposited at the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York.
