Brereton Charles Dalton Nash-Wortham was born in 1879 at Mount Lodge, Therfield, Herts, and educated at Eastbourne College, commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment on 5 Jan 1901 as a Second Lieutenant, named as Nash at that point. He was employed as a Railway Staff Officer on the lines of communication in South Africa. He was on operations in the Orange River Colony between September and November 1901 and then as Station Staff Officer from Nov 1901 to March 1902. He was promoted to lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment on 19 Sep 1903 and captain on 20 March 1909. On 23 April 1913 he transferred as a captain to the 9th Lancers. The 1911 army list names him as Nash-Wortham.
He went to France and Belgium with the 9th Lancers and was wounded on the regiment’s first day in action on 24 Aug 1914. He later served in Palestine under General Allenby and was awarded the Military Cross ‘for distinguished services in the Field in connection with the Military Operations which culminated in the capture of Jerusalem’. The London Gazette of 11 April 1918 published this citation and gave his rank as captain (temporary major). After the war he was placed on the retired list. He was married to Dorothy Sisley Evans. They had at least one child; Jack Raleigh H Nash-Wortham born on 3 Jan 1916 at Woodhatch House, Reigate. Major Nash-Wortham’s medals were sold at Spink on 21 July 1998. The photo shows him in the full dress uniform of the 9th Lancers after the war.
