He was capped once by England in the second row. He had served in the Artists Rifles in the First World War and captained Richmond Rugby Club. Pamela Faulks was the only daughter of Philip Lawless, MC. He made a full recovery and lived an active life, later sitting as a judge in London and Reading. He received further wounds when the Germans bombed the beachhead hospital while he was waiting to be evacuated. He was wounded in North Africa and again when his company was in slit trenches at Anzio.
He was awarded the Military Cross in Tunisia. He fought in Holland, France, North Africa, Italy, Palestine and Syria.
He had interrupted his legal training in 1939 to enlist with the Duke of Wellington’s, a Yorkshire-based infantry regiment. Peter Faulks was a partner in the local law firm Pitman and Bazett. He was the younger son of Peter Faulks (1917-1998) and Pamela, née Lawless (1923-2003). Sebastian Faulks was born in Donnington, a village near Newbury in Berkshire on April 20, 1953.
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