Forename: Wilfred
Surname: Onions
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Monmouthshire Regiment
Institution: Cheltenham Training College
Rugby Team 1906 – 1907 The Chelt Mar 1907 (UA35/2/15)
1906 – 1908 Year Group (UA36/12/6)
Wilfred Onions was a student at Cheltenham Training College from 1906 – 1908 and was originally from Tredegar, Monmouth. He played cricket and rugby at college, and went to work as a teacher at Georgetown Senior Mixed School in Tredegar after qualification.
He was a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Territorials and died at Ypres on 25 April 1915, aged 26. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, having no known grave.