Weir De Lancey Williams
(1872-1961), Major-GeneralSitter in 1 portrait
copied by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, copied 24 October 1951
NPG x100312
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Bill Adlard
15 October 2020, 15:11
Weir de Lancey Williams was my mother's step-father's brother. He lived in Guernsey. I met him a few times when I was a small boy. He was known as Uncle Goulou. I have a photograph of him at a wedding taken in Guernsey in about 1931 and he looks much older than in this rather nice portrait, which cannot have been executed in 1951. My mother is also in the photograph I have. She was born in 1918, and she's about 14 in the picture. I would suggest that your portrait shows him roughly at some point during, or just before the first world war. I have put a link to the photograph in the citation section. He is standing on the far right, with my mother next to him.