Walter Abel Heurtley.

About Walter Abel Heurtley

Walter Abel Heurtley was a British classical archaeologist. The son of a Church of England vicar, he was educated at Uppingham School and read classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a scholarship. Upon leaving Cambridge, he worked as a teacher at The Oratory School, and became a reserve officer in the Royal Engineers. He served in the East Lancashire Regiment during the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches three times and acted as deputy governor of the British military prison at Salonika in Greece.