{"id":2171,"date":"2021-11-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:57:53","slug":"allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-obituaries\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Wilmot, Wolmer\u2019s scholar and wartime sailor \u2014 Guardian obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/08\/allan-wilmot-obituary\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Allan Wilmot. Photograph: Marlon Ruddock \/ The-Latest.Com \/ The Guardian, 8 November 2021\" class=\"wp-image-2240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-200x120.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-1536x921.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/allan-wilmot-guardian-obituary-2021-feat-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Allan Wilmot. Photograph: Marlon Ruddock \/ The-Latest.Com \/ The Guardian, 8 November 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>November 8, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Allan Wilmot recorded that from Wesley school he \u201cwon a scholarship to Wolmer\u2019s high school.\u201d At sixteen he volunteered for the Royal Navy, in 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/08\/allan-wilmot-obituary\">The Guardian<\/a>, November 8, 2021. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by The Guardian November 8, 2021 The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Allan Wilmot recorded that from Wesley school he \u201cwon a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}