Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Walter Rd. and Annie E. Terrell of School House, Great Casterton, Rutland. He was a teacher at St. Mary’s School, Rotherhithe, London. He was formerly an assistant master at St. Martin’s Boy’s School, Stamford, Lincolnshire. In September 1912 he went for two years training at the London County Council Training College at Islington. And on leaving college in July 1914, he was appointed assistant master in St. Mary’s Boy’s School in Rotherhithe, Kent, which post he held until enlistment. He served in Belgium and France, being killed on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. An account of his death was given by a comrade, Rifleman Sidney Lause a returned Prisoner of War:- “He was killed by the same bomb that wounded me. We had got into the German line on the attack, but had to retire. We had got to a shell hole when a bomb was thrown in by a German, Vic was killed by my side.” Other sources show his Battalion as the 2nd/5th.