Roll of Honour 2023

E DGAR G EORGE F ELLOWS P RYNNE (R OLL N O : 1227) K ILLED IN A CTION S EPTEMBER 1916; T HE S OMME , F RANCE . “He was one of the best, straightest and most gallant fellows I have ever known.” (His Commanding Ofcer)

G UY P ENROSE G IBSON (R OLL N O : 2755) K ILLED IN A CTION S EPTEMBER 1944; H OLLAND . “His name will not be forgotten; it will for ever be enshrined in the most wonderful records of our country.” (Winston Churchill, December 1944)

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD , AT W AR Roll of Honour

A DRIAN W ARBURTON (R OLL N O : 2718) K ILLED IN A CTION A PRIL 1944; B AVARIA , G ERMANY . “A brave and modest man, serving and dying with men who appreciated his worth to the full.” (Chronicle, March 1945)

G EOFFREY C HARLES T OWNROE (R OLL N O : 1352) K ILLED IN A CTION S EPTEMBER 1917; F LANDERS , F RANCE . “He was marked by deep religious feeling and a strong sense of duty, with a cheerful word for all.” (Chronicle, October 1917)

T HE VAST MAJORITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT APPEAR IN THIS BOOK ARE FROM THE ARCHIVES OF S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD , AND THEIR PROPERTY .

S PRING 2023

T HE C REW W HO N EVER R ETURNED

The School IV - 1910 Standing (l - r) A.N.C. Hunt (Killed in Acton, France 1916), C.D. Upstone (died Bombay 1916) Seated (l - r) M.R. Thompson (Killed in Acton, France 1917), H.S. Jeferson (died of wounds Gallipoli 1915) Seated centre B.W. Ramsbotom (Killed in Acton, France 1918)

C ONTENTS

“All praise to them: but what of those whose valour was not deeds, but life, who knowing well war’s evil, chose to sacrifice self in the strife”. Anon verse in “Chronicle”, June 1917

F OREWORD R OLL OF H ONOUR 1895 - 1994 E ARLY W ARS .. .. ..

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1914 - 1918

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M ESOPOTAMIA /R USSIA /W AZIRISTAN 1919 - 1921

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1939 - 1945

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L ATER C ONFLICTS

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“As we stood while the Warden read the names of those OSE who had fallen in the war; pride and sorrow were mingled in our hearts, in that great paradox of the Christian religion ‘The Glory of the Cross’.” The first Commem Service after World War II Chronicle, December 1945

O VERVIEW As things stands today, the School’s Roll of Honour stretches one year short of a century starting with William Herbert Clarke (Roll 525, SES 1882-6), dying in action or due to fever, during the Second Matabele War in May 1895 at Insigna, Matabeleland (Southwestern Zimbabwe today), while a ‘Commissioner or Native Commander’ with The Gwelo Volunteers Field Force under Lord Salisbury. The last OSE on this hallowed list is John Robert Deverell (Roll 4476, SES 1949-55), who was working for the Security Services, a passenger in the helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre on 2 nd June 1994 in thick fog. All 25 passengers and 4 crew were killed. While shrouded in secrecy, Deverell and most of the other passengers were listed as ‘intelligence experts’ from MI5, The Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army on their way to attend a conference at Fort George, near Inverness, Scotland. This was at the height of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and the crash was a huge blow to the John Major government. As such, this has to be considered an OSE dying during a time of an ‘internal war’ and therefore entirely worthy of being included on the School’s ROH. Including these two deaths, a total of 287 OSE and 4 teachers from the School, have been lost in times of war or because of war.

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S TAGE O NE ( PRE -G REAT W AR ) Matabele Wars

One OSE death One OSE death Three OSE deaths

North-West Frontier Two Boer Wars

S TAGE T WO (T HE G REAT W AR *) Number of OSE lost

One hundred and eighteen

Number of teachers lost

Three

S TAGE T HREE (W ORLD W AR T WO ) Number of OSE lost

One hundred and fifty-two

Number of teachers lost

One

S TAGE F OUR (O THER **) Number of OSE lost

Seventeen

*Included in The Great War figures are three OSE who died after the war ended, but of injuries caused by the war, **These include those lost in Service accidents between the wars, and in various smaller conflicts involving British forces after WW2.

Total ROH Two hundred and eighty-seven OSE, four teachers Details of these individuals are included in the following pages.

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St. Edward’s School, Oxford had never been intended to be a military establishment, quite the opposite in fact. The early fathers had founded the School based on deeply religious beliefs, starting in New Inn Hall Street and then in Summertown, with the expectation that most of their charges would be ordained or would follow peaceable respectable careers based on their sincere Christian beliefs. To die in war was not such an expectation. Yet, even by the end of the New Inn Hall era there were a significant number of pupils entering the services (as high as 12%) with no less than three future eminent

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army Colonels in their number. In large Victorian/Edwardian families there were few options for even the sons of clergy, after the eldest had gone into the church or the family business, others going overseas into missionary work or teaching, so the military life often offered a tempting noble career and even a glamorous, adventurous life as an alternative. While the very first OSE lost were in ‘Empire’ wars, including the Matabele risings and on the Northwest Frontier, the two Boer Wars were a major turning point, when no less than 72 Teddies pupils and OSE volunteered to go out to South Africa to fight, some famously parading around the Quad in full battle dress ‘awaiting the call’. Just what the still largely clerically-based Common Room felt about all this was not recorded. Three OSE died in these wars, and fifteen were so severely wounded they had to return to England for treatment and recuperation. The medal count was nevertheless impressive. Others remained in the forces as regulars and stayed on in South Africa or other parts of the British Empire as soldiers, farmers or even the Colonial Service. In 1905, under pressure from OSE and the pupils themselves, the School reluctantly agreed to a ‘Rifle Club’ which allowed the teaching of target-shooting at the end of the sports fields and some minor drilling. This was the precursor for the first St. Edward’s Cadet Corps which came into being in 1909, encouraged by the government and led by Lord Haldane, who directed that all Public Schools should have an ‘Officers Training Corps (OTC)’, following evidence of a serious lack of good officer material during the Boer Wars. John Bussell and Leonard Cass were the first teachers to run the SES OTC, both sadly lost six years later in the trenches. This at least would give the older boys the chance to learn the basics of soldiering in preparation for what was to come. The Corps was taken seriously and all those over fourteen years, who automatically joined, were supplied with uniforms and a variety of armaments, mostly from a by-gone age by the War Office, which at least looked the part even if they were largely ineffective. Field Days against other schools and even regular troops, inspections, and route marches all over the Oxford countryside became part of the curriculum. When The Great War broke out, a School contingent of forty souls was at their annual camp, this year held at Tidworth, and some immediately returned home to join the colours. In all, an estimated 673 members of the School community would eventually go to war, including pupils, OSE, teachers, and non-teaching staff. The oldest would be Harry Hopton (OSE) who died in service at the age of 60, and the youngest Stephen Richards (Roll 1623) aged just 18 who joined the final stage of the war and would survive. The average age of the OSE killed would be 28 years and the average age of teachers lost would be 34.

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The trauma of reading out the lists of the fallen in Chapel every Friday (often with siblings in the congregation) was left to the Warden William Ferguson who, like Henry Kendall two decades later, was often left emotionally drained by the ordeal. Of the alumni who were part of The Great War effort, 39% joined the School before 1900. Cowell’s own figures show that 43% of all boys who had joined the School since its inception in 1863 fought in this war, an astonishing statistic. Also, the School’s eventual attrition rate was amongst the highest of any peer public school. Like so many schools, St. Edward’s would lose the ‘flower of its alumni’, with several families losing more than one member and the Isle of Wight-based Usshers losing all three sons. Wherever the fighting was fiercest, there you would find members of the Teddies contingent - Vimy Ridge, The Somme, Mons, Passchendaele, The Aisne, Loos, The Marne, Messines, Givenchy and Arras as well as in faraway Macedonia, West Africa, India and of course the Dardanelles. While the majority were in the army, there was a notable group in the Royal Navy and towards the end of the war, the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force.

Going through each individual case, the later researcher cannot help but be struck by the apparent stoicism of those involved and the tragedy of ‘what might have been’ had there been no war. The inevitable instances of ‘No Known Grave’ are particularly haunting even now; just how those families coped with nowhere to visit and mourn is difficult to comprehend. A full list of The Great War decorations won by the School contingent is listed in Appendix (iii) in my 2015 book “Members of a Very Noble Friendship”. Also, a full list of every OSE/Teacher who fought in the Boer War/

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Great War is held on various spreadsheets in the archive files. Every effort has been made to find out as much as possible about the fallen from the School archives, regimental diaries, family records, the indispensable ‘Chronicles’, edited throughout this war by Wilfrid Cowell and John Millington Sing, who would have known all those involved intimately. Finally, a huge effort has been made over many years to find images of these members of the School community as they add so much to the narrative. As can be seen, not every search has been successful sadly, although those for The Great War were far more in evidence than in the second conflict.

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C OMMEMORATING THE F IRST OSE LOST IN ANY WAR AND THE G REAT W AR Plans on how best to commemorate the WW1 Roll of Honour had occupied the School Governors, Warden, and OSE for some time, even before the war officially ended. Some of these plans had to be put on hold as the School, like the rest of the world, had to cope with the “Spanish Flu epidemic” of 1918/19, which laid low practically the whole School population. Fortunately, there were no School deaths resulting. As early as 1903 the Chapel walls were panelled in oak on which the first OSE losses in the Boer War and elsewhere were commemorated by an individual copper plate, on the north wall nearest the door. This work was paid for by donations. The then Prince of Wales had suggested in 1917 the initiation of War Memorial Funds by all educational establishments, and the St. Edward’s Council wasted no time in an appeal aimed at a figure of £10,000 (£924,000 today) to: - • Erect a Calvary in the cloisters facing southwards from Big School, standing in a deep bay round which would be the names of the fallen. This would be the priority charge on available funds. • The setting aside a sufficient sum to enable the education, at reduced rates fees, for the sons of fallen OSE.

D EDICATION OF THE C ALVARY 1919 WITH OTC IN ATTENDANCE

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• The erection at the south end of the new cloisters of a new Science School (including laboratory). • The addition, if funds allowed, of further dormitories and classrooms ‘to facilitate the School’s expansion’. There were other further suggestions including one aimed at individual OSE who ‘wished to see the Quad completed - and who offered £1,000 in order that this may be undertaken as a War Memorial’. A committee was formed, chaired by the Warden, with the most senior masters and distinguished OSE to receive the donations, and architect Harold Rogers (OSE) was retained to design any new building designs. By 1922 the appeal had slowly worked its way up to £8,000, but over time the original aims were significantly altered. The Calvary was however erected, not where originally planned, but in the Masters’ Garden and was dedicated at Commemoration (as it was now called rather than Winter Gaudy) in 1919 by the Archdeacon of Oxford, with a OTC Guard of Honour, under CSM Merry. This is where it remained until moved slightly north to make way for the Memorial Library in 1953. With a rather disappointing reaction to the appeal, despite an encouraging start and several reminders by Wilfrid Cowell in the ‘Chronicle’, the original plans of the overall Memorial scheme had to be changed. The Science School was dropped altogether (and had to wait until 1928), the extension to the easterly cloisters abandoned. Instead, Rogers was asked to design a ‘new boarding house with music rooms attached behind, in the Gothic style’ – to be named the ‘War Memorial Buildings’ (later Tilly’s House) in the southeast corner of the Quad to abut the existing New Buildings (later Macnamara’s House). This was commenced in 1922 and completed in 1925 and would use up the remainder of the Fund. In 1924 John Millington Sing (Warden 1904-1913) funded and unveiled two commemorative stone memorials in the cloisters next to the Chapel, facing into the Quad with the names of 121 OSE and teachers, thus including every name numerically, and to confuse the later researcher, naming names of those lost after the war ended! Also, one name was spelt wrong! Meantime, throughout the war and after it ended individual plaques depicting the fallen were mounted around the wooden panels in Chapel, cardboard during wartime, and then replaced with oak later. These gave the name of the individual lost, dates and location of death, most of these being accurate but there are one or two which may need changing, if desired. By the time the war ended these plaques had reached right around the Chapel walls.

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The build of T HE W AR M EMORIAL B UILDINGS 1923

Four new wooden WW1 plaques were added in 2017 (paid for by the Society) of OSE who, for whatever reason, had never been commemorated previously.

S TAGE T WO : B ACKGROUND (2) T HE S ECOND W ORLD W AR

The outbreak of the Second World War was a very different event to the corresponding one twenty-five years previously. This time there was no mad rush to join the colours, but a more organised affair with the government emphasising to all schools that pupils should ‘stay in place and continue with their studies until called up for the war’. St. Edward’s, like all Public Schools, was well prepared, with an organised OTC of many years standing, trained and drilled by regular soldiers on all the basics needed for entering the forces as well as teachers, usually with

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previous military experience. The Certificate A (parts 1 & 2) were exams that needed to be passed which further equipped the Cadets with skills in map-reading, field tactics, arms handing and maintenance, target shooting, drilling others etc. So, most of those who had reached the age of eighteen or over and members of the OTC became candidates for the Officer Cadet Training Units in expectation of a commission, with the prospect that Call-up would come when they reached twenty. This age estimate quickly reduced.

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An estimated 1627 OSE, teachers, non-teaching staff would take part in WW2. Included would be 1600 OSE and 13 teachers. 79 of these OSE would see service in both the World Wars, and 68 would experience some or nearly all the war as Prisoners of War, including in Colditz Castle. 152 OSE and 1 teacher were killed in action or otherwise died in service. Breaking the OSE number down by service: - Service OSE ROH Army 1023 67 Navy (Royal) 230 13 Navy (Merchant) 6 3 Marines 22 4 Air Services 285 56 Allied Forces 14 4 Others 20 5 Totals 1600 152 The oldest OSE lost was Allen Bathurst (Roll 346) who was killed in London during the Blitz on the night of 11 th May 1941, aged 76, and the youngest was Cadet Colin Murray just under 18 years old with the Merchant Navy killed, when his vessel RMS ‘Domala’ was sunk by Heinkel bombers in March 1940 near Southampton. He has no known grave. While there were some comparisons to be made with the School’s experience in The Great War, many things had changed both internally and externally. St Edward’s was now physically bigger, both in terms of the number of pupils and infrastructure. The sixth Warden Henry Kendall had taken over from his Great War counterpart William Ferguson in 1925, and very quickly had ramped up all areas of the School’s expansion and prospects with a mixture of unbounded energy, drive, barrels of charm when and where required, mixed with a steely ‘Old-School no-nonsense approach’ based on a determination to allow nothing to stand in the way of what he saw as progress. Not everyone’s role model, his personal relationship with the boys and staff was as close as it was two-way. Even during the war years, the number of pupils at the School was growing (361 in September 1940 - 417 in the same term in 1945). The new war was obviously no longer going to be largely fought out in fixed positions in trenches, with poisoned gas and endless artillery and minuscule advances, but now on a much broader scale with the use of air, sea and land technological power never dreamed of in 1914-18.

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OSE, while still choosing the Army as the main service in which to serve, now also joined the Air Services and to a lesser extent the Royal and Merchant Navies. However, the Merchant Navy carried with it the greatest attrition rate of the war. In the end the RAF/RAFVR was to be the service for which St. Edward’s would be best recognised post war. Once again the ‘Chronicle’ proved a reliable source of information throughout, edited by the Reverend Leslie Styler, though he was hampered by much stricter censorship rules that hadn’t been in place in The Great War. The School magazine often included very effusive character testimonials of those killed, usually very soon after the event which possibly make rather extravagant reading today; written probably by the Housemasters involved, Kendall himself, or Styler (who was also a Chaplain) all of whom would have known the individual personally and been highly affected by the loss of such a young life. Again, searches have been made for greater explanation of where and how OSE losses occurred, especially air crashes which seemed common, even over the British Isles and needed greater explanation; some have been resolved, others remain annoyingly puzzling. Once again, the ‘No Known Grave’ syndrome crops up frequently, quite often for bomber crews which took off from their home bases in the United Kingdom and were never seen again. Since the majority of the OSE lost in the R.A.F./R.A.F.V.R. were in Bomber Command, this research is important and on-going. It was truly a world war with OSE lost in the Far East, Italy, the Desert War, Dunkirk, Malta and all the central actions in Europe. C OMMEMORATING OSE LOST IN W ORLD W AR T WO As early as February 1943, the School Governors were meeting and considering what form any WW2 War Memorial might take once peace returned. In July 1944 a four page leaflet appeared in the ‘Chronicle’, detailing the plan arrived at by the Governors and ‘the Executive Committee of the St. Edward’s School Society’ which consisted of: • An Aspinall Wall, behind the existing Calvary, on which names of those who have given their lives would be recorded. • Grants to enable the sons of OSE killed or incapacitated in the War to be educated at the School. • A Library and, if funds permitted, a Speech Hall, to form part a new building, which would stand within the School as a constant reminder of the sacrifice in war made by sons of the School (This was at first envisaged as a major rebuild of the existing Big School).

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Illustrations were attached showing the scope of all these plans and how the appropriate War Memorial Appeal could be entered into. These plans immediately ran into trouble with the refusal of the local planners to grant immediate post-war building licences, which swiftly put paid to the Big School extension. This was not the only frustration, contributions to the War Fund were very slow, much to Kendall’s annoyance, eventually closing at just short of the £25,000 target in 1954 (£742,500 today). Finally, after four planning applications had been turned down, the Ministry of Education agreed to sponsor the erection of a separate War Memorial Library (by Field Dodd & Stevens) in the area behind Big School and to the south of the Chapel. Quite separately an ornate screen designed by Harold Rogers (OSE) had been expertly carved by Jack Keeling (Deputy Headmaster of St. Bede’s School, Eastbourne), amongst others, to divide off the Memorial Chapel from the main Chapel aisle, in memory of Jack Simmonds (OSE) killed in action at Enfidaville, Tunisia and paid for (anonymously) by his Housemaster Arthur Macnamara. By 1949 the slow investment rate plus delays to planning, meant that the Aspinall Wall had been abandoned early on, and now the estimates for a new War Memorial Library had come in much higher than expected, and was in jeopardy as well and a tendering process entered into. A further delay due to ‘acute labour shortage in Oxford’ meant the appeal was put back to ‘1950 and yet again to 1951’. Finally in 1952 the planning permission was received, and to add to this good news the Minister of Education sponsored £16,000 (£536,000 today) towards the building cost in her 1952/3 budget. Work started, including the moving of The Great War Calvary a few yards nearer the Chapel and other minor changes to the back of Big School. The building was opened by Henry Kendall at his last Gaudy in 1954 and was in full use by the next Winter Term. Additionally, a WW2 Memorial Wooden Panel was erected in the Memorial Chapel in 1949 showing most of the names of those lost (but inaccuracies also) and was dedicated by the Bishop of Exeter, Robert Mortimer (OSE) in June 1949. This replaced the earlier board, carved by Jack Keeling during the war, which he kept updated as information came though, until he ran out of space. A small silver crucifix in the same Memorial Chapel was presented by the parents of Paul Cooke, killed in action at Comines, Belgium in May 1940. Just how many sons of OSE killed were educated at reduced prices is difficult to trace, but there were only a handful, especially with most of those on the ROH being sadly too young to have children of their own.

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In 1955 the Air Council of the R.A.F. presented the School with a stained-glass window ‘in recognition of the fine record of the boys from St. Edward’s in the R.A.F.’ Designed by Hugh Easton, it was first installed in the northern wall of the new Memorial Library, then later moved at least twice and is now in the Warden’s Dining Room. Just post-war there were some annual prizes awarded in memory of OSE lost in action, most of short duration, though a few still exist even today.

H ENRY K ENDALL OPENS THE NEW M EMORIAL L IBRARY , G AUDY 1954

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School Archives

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St. Edward’s School Chronicles

“A N EW H ISTORY OF S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD ” by Malcolm Oxley (2015) “M EMBERS OF A V ERY N OBLE F RIENDSHIP ” by Chris Nathan (2015) “L ET IT R OAR , L ET IT R AGE , W E S HALL C OME T HROUGH ” by Chris Nathan (2019)

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“Sped by the love of England you are gone, You are gone on in joy invincible. Passed is the valley of the shadow won Is that clear height where light and splendour dwell.”

Poem by Aubyn Trevor-Battye (OSE) published in Chronicle, March 1919

SECOND MATABELE WAR 1896 W ILLIAM H ERBERT C LARKE TIRAH CAMPAIGN 1897 D AVID E DWARD O SBORNE J ONES T HE B OER W ARS 1899 - 1902 H ERMAN M AITLAND A GNEW A LFRED L UND A LFRED E YTON S PURLING THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1918 R ICHARD F REDERICK N ORREYS B ERTIE G EORGE H OWARD B ICKLEY J OHN B RUCE B LAXLAND L AWRENCE C AVE B LENCOWE O SWALD C HARLES B LENCOWE R EGINALD C ROMMELIN P OPHAM B LYTH A RCHIBALD T HOMAS B OSTOCK C HARLES E DWARD R IDGEWAY B RIDSON J OHN P AUL R IDGEWAY B RIDSON D ESMOND C ECIL B AGGE B RIEN E DWARD H ENRY B RIEN H AROLD W ILLIAM R EGINALD B RUTEY J AMES C ROMWELL B USH

Gwelo Volunteers & Field Force, Salisbury’s Column

Prince of Wales’ Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)

Imperial Yeomanry City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers) Imperial Yeomanry (Gorringe’s Scouts)

The Berkshire Yeomanry The Machine Gun Corps The South Wales Borderers The King’s (Liverpool) Scottish Regiment The Rifle Brigade (att: to Oxford & Bucks LI) The Gloucestershire Regiment (att: to The Royal Fusiliers) The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment The Devonshire Regiment The Cheshire Regiment The Manitoba Regiment of Canada The Royal Air Force The Wiltshire Regiment (att: to The Royal Flying Corps)

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The Royal Sussex Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment The Royal Flying Corps Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides Infantry The Sussex Battery, Royal Artillery The PunjabRegiment, IndianArmy (att: Royal FlyingCorps) The Punjab Regiment, Indian Army The Surrey Rifles The Gloucestershire Regiment The East Yorkshire Regiment The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Alberta Regiment of Canada The Bedfordshire Regiment The West Yorkshire Regiment The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment Chaplain&MunitionWorker,WoolwichArsenal, London The Australian Field Artillery The Royal Air Force The Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Air Force The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment The Quebec Regiment of Canada Lord Strathcona’s Horse of Canada The Norfolk Regiment The City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers) The Gloucestershire Regiment The King’s African Rifles The Durham Light Infantry The Lincolnshire Regiment The Machine Gun Corps The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey) Regiment The Royal Air Force The Royal Berkshire Regiment The Worcestershire Regiment The Royal Flying Corps The Gloucestershire Regiment The Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters) The Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal West Kent Regiment The South Staffordshire Regiment The Australian Infantry The Royal Field Artillery The Leicestershire Regiment The London Regiment (Rangers) The West Yorkshire Regiment The Middlesex Regiment The Nairobi Defence Force

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E DMUND B ONAR D EANE W ALTER F REDERICK D EW W ILLIAM H AYWARD D ORE B ERNARD H ENRY D RIVER R OBERT L OUIS A CLAND D UNN F RANCIS W ILFRED H OLT D YSON -R OWLEY H ENRY T ARRANT E YRES L ESLIE J OHN E DGAR C UTHBERT F AIRWEATHER E DWARD A LEC F OORD T REVOR M AWDSLEY F OOTE W ALTER J OHN F RAMPTON A LFRED S IDNEY G ARDNER G EORGE M AURICE G ERALD G ILLET B UTLER M ILWAY G IVEEN A RTHUR A DELBERT L INGARD G REEN A RTHUR P ERCEVAL G REEN F REDERICK R OBERT C YPRIAN H AMMOND A RTHUR D ENNIS H ARDING C LAUDE S TEPHEN H ARDING W ILFRED J OHN H ARE E RNEST C HARLES H ARRIS T HOMAS G REENWOOD H AUGHTON R OLAND T HORSTEN H ETT J OHN P HILIP H IGGS E RIC H OBBS

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The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The Canadian Ontario Infantry The Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment The Sherwood Foresters) The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment The City of London Regiment (The Rough Riders) The Leicestershire Regiment The East African Mounted Infantry (Bowker’s Horse) Civilian contractor involved in war work The Middlesex Regiment The Wiltshire Regiment The East Kent Regiment The London (Artists’ Rifles) Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment The Middlesex Regiment The Essex Regiment The Northumberland Fusiliers The Royal Lancashire Regiment The Manchester Regiment The Black Watch Regiment The Royal Naval Air Service The Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters) The East Lancashire Regiment The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry The Western Ontario Regiment of Canada The Northamptonshire Regiment The City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers) The City of London Regiment. (The Royal Fusiliers) The Norfolk Regiment The City of London Regiment (The Kensingtons) The Royal Marines Light Infantry The South Lancashire Regiment The Canadian Field Artillery The Saskatchewan Regiment of Canada The London Regiment (Rifle Brigade) The York & Lancaster Regiment The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal Field Artillery The Machine Gun Corps The Royal Flying Corps The Leicestershire Regiment The Leicestershire Regiment: (att: The Australian Expeditionary Force) The Army Service Corps The Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Air Force

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L EO Q UINTUS T OLLEMACHE L EONE S EXTUS T OLLEMACHE

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The South Lancashire Regiment (Pioneers) The Devonshire Regiment The Princess of Wales’s Leinster Regiment The Royal Navy The Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, Indian Army The Northamptonshire Regiment The Wiltshire Regiment The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment The Norfolk Regiment

G EOFFREY C HARLES T OWNROE C EDRIC D ONOVAN U PSTONE B EVERLEY U SSHER R ICHARD U SSHER S TEPHEN U SSHER A LEXANDER M OULTRIE W ALLACE E RIC W ALLACE W ARE W ILLIAM R OBERT A LEXANDER W AREING E DMUND E RNEST C HARLES W ELLESLEY J OHN H ENRY F ARQUHAR W ILGRESS E DWARD P ARKER W ILKINSON G EOFFREY E LLISON W ILKINSON H AROLD G ODWIN W ILLIAMSON GREAT WAR LOSSES IN THE COMMON ROOM L EONARD F RANCIS C ASS L EONARD D AVIES J OHN B ERTRAM P ARTINGTON SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945 D AVID H ENRY A LLAN R AYMOND G RAY A LLEN R OGER B AINBRIGGE A RTHUR B ANKS G EORGE F RANCIS B ARKER -B ENFIELD R OBERT M ALCOLM B ARLAS A LLEN B ATHURST J OHN S TEWART N OALL B ERNAYS P ETER H ARDEY B LAKE J OHN R OGER M ICHAEL B LACKISTON N IGEL G REENSTREET B OWEN B ENJAMIN R OBERT B RADFORD -M ARTIN D AVID F REDERICK B RAHAM P ETER H OPTON B ROWN J AMES W ILD B UTTERFIELD P AUL W INSTANLEY M ANNERS C ARLYON J OHN G RAHAM C ASTLING G ORDON S AMPSON C LEAR P AUL C OOKE P ETER O GDEN C OOP H ARRY H ARWOOD D ERRINGTON C OX

The Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment The North Staffordshire Regiment

The Royal Sussex Regiment The London (Rifle Brigade) Regiment The Devonshire Regiment

Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Ulster Rifles The Pioneer Corps Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Operational Training Unit, R.A.F.V.R The Royal Signals Regiment Civilian (Retired) The Leicestershire Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Armoured Corps Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. H.M.S. “Arrow” R.N.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.N.Z.A.F. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The Rifle Brigade Bomber Command. R.A.F.V.R.

Pathfinders, R.A.F. The Royal Engineers Bomber Command, R.A.F Royal Scots Fusiliers The Royal Engineers

A LEC P ANTON C RANSWICK M ICHAEL B ROOKE C RICKMAY W ILLIAM P ETER C ROSSE A RTHUR I AN B RUCE C UMMING A LLAN D EWETT C UNLIFFE

R OLL OF H ONOUR (5)

Submarine Service, R.N.V.R. The East Kent Regiment Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R. Fighter Command, R.C.A.F. The Royal Marines The South Wales Borderers The South Lancashire Regiment The Black Watch Trainee, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Artillery The Manchester Regiment The Royal Berkshire Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Cheshire Regiment The Royal Tank Regiment The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry The Anti-Aircraft Regiment The Anti-Aircraft Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment The Cameron Highlanders The Hong Kong & Singapore Regiment The Hong Kong Volunteer Force The Middlesex Regiment Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. The East Kent Regiment The Royal Hussars The Royal Marines The Royal Fusiliers The Royal Sussex Regiment Trainer, R.A.F.V.R. The Queen’s Royal RegimentThe West Surreys) The West African Artillery Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The North Staffordshire Regiment The Norwegian Army The Royal Tank Regiment The Adelaide Rifles, Australian Imperial Force Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Corps of Signals

R ICHARD L OUIS C UNNINGHAM P ETER R OBERT T ABOR D ANIEL E RIC J OHN H OPKINS D IXON T HEODORE D OUBASSOF V ICTOR F RANCIS E LLIS R ONALD A RTHUR E VETTS H UMFREY F AIRCLOUGH B RYAN G RATNEY F ERGUSON D OUGLAS W ARREN F LATAU

H ENRY P EAT F ORSHAW I AN H UMPHREY G AMON R ICHARD G EORGE

G UY P ENROSE G IBSON H ARRY T REVOR G ILBERT B ASIL T HOMAS R OBERTSON G LASSPOOL V ICTOR G EORGE T ATMAN G ODLEY P HILIP C HARLES G OING M ARTIN R ICHARD G OODMAN T HOMAS D ENT G OODMAN P ETER V ERRALL M AXWELL G ORDON -C ROSBY R OWLAND M ERCER G RADWELL H ARRY O GILVY P ETER G RANT H UGH S TANLEY L EMON G RIFFITH R ONALD H ANHAM G RIFFITHS S TANLEY D AVID J AMES G RIMSDALE W ILLIAM R OBERT Y ULE G UILFOYLE A NTHONY S TRANGMAN H ANCOCK J OHN M URRAY H ARDING G EORGE A RUNDEL H ARDWICK O WEN S TEWART H ARE J OHN V ELLACOTT H ARRISON S YDNEY D ONALD H ARRISON J OHN M ICHAEL H ARVEY P ATRICK V ICTOR B ELSHAW H AYES -G RATZE C HRISTOPHER R ENDEL H EBELER M ICHAEL H OWE H EWLETT P ETER M AXWELL C LIVE H ILL A RTHUR E DMONDS H ILLIER H ARALD H OLTHE A RTHUR T AYLOR H UGHES G EORGE F REDERICK H URRAN C HARLES E DMUND H UGH J EFFERSON R ICHARD W ILLIAM J ENKINS D AVID W IMBORNE K EITH G EOFFREY B ROWNLOW W IGNEY K EITH G EORGE J AKE B RIAN K ENDALL C OLIN T REVOR H ICKS B RYAN T HOMAS H ILL

The Gordon Highlanders Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R.

R OLL OF H ONOUR (6)

Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Sussex Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The South Wales Borderers (Chindits) The Royal Marines Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Army Service Corps The Pioneer Corps The Seaforth Highlanders Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R. Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Scots Fusiliers The Royal Irish Fusiliers Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Scots Guards Trainer, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. R.M.S. (Domala) The Merchant Navy Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Home Guard (Bristol) Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Chindits) The South Lancashire Regiment (Commandoes) HMS “Repulse”, R.N.V.R.

K ENWARD E RNEST K NOX D ESMOND W ILLIAM B URT L ANSDOWN D ENIS N OLAN L EE A UBREY D ENNING J OHN L EGGE -W ILKINSON T HOMAS G LENDENNING H ARRIES L EWIS J OHN M ICHAEL G WYNNE L LEWELLYN -D AVIES R ICHARD A RCHER L UCK G AVIN J OHN L YNES C HRISTOPHER C HARLES D OLBEN M ACKWORTH C OLIN A LEXANDER M AC V EAN M ILES B ENJAMIN M ARGARY M ERVYN C HARLES M ASON D OUGLAS N ELSON M ATCHAM J OHN R ICHARD M ATHERS F REDERICK J OHN G ORDON M ATTHEWS D AVID M C L AREN V INCENT M C N EIL -C OOKE D ESMOND B ERNARD M OORE E DWARD P ATRICK M ORTIMER G ILES F IRBANK M UNDY H ERBERT M UNDY A LAN L AMONI M UNRO C OLIN M URRAY F EODORE N ARISHKIN G EORGE B ERNARD T REVERNE N EWHOUSE H UGH F RANCIS P ERCEVAL N EWHOUSE R UPERT M AITLAND N EWMAN H ENRY C HRISTOPHER N ICHOL -S MITH M ICHAEL O WEN O GIER P ETER R OBERT O WEN C YRIL P OWER S EATON L IDDESDALE P ALMER W ILLIAM H OWARD P AGET G ORDON E RNEST M ALBON P ARKER C HRISTOPHER J AMES A RCHIBALD P AULLEY H UMPHREY B RISBANE M AUNSELL P EARSON N ICHOLAS R ICHARD P EEL G ERALD K URT K ENNETH K ESTON P ELMORE S TUART M AUDSLAY P RATT G ODFREY R ONALD P RICE O LAF P ETER R HODES A UGUSTINE S TUART Q UALLETT R OBINS W ILLIAM H ENRY R OBINS C HARLES S TEWART R OBINSON P ETER R OBERT D ENHAM R ODWELL M ICHAEL B RUCE R OGERSON R OBERT D UDLEY R OPER J OHN DE M ONTJOIE R UDOLF G EORGE E DMUND S ALE

Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Middlesex Regiment M.T.B. Boats, R.N.V.R.

The Royal Army Service Corps Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. “SS Vancouver”, The Merchant Navy The Royal Army Ordnance Corps Command, R.A.F.V.R

Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. HMS “Ganges”, R.N.V.R. Flying Instruction Unit, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R.

R OLL OF H ONOUR (7)

Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. The Local Defence Corps (Malaya) The King’s Royal Rifle Brigade The Royal Artillery The Malay States Forces The Royal Armoured Corps The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Bomber Command R.A.F.V.R. The U.S. Infantry “SS Hertford”, The Merchant Navy

P ETER G ORDON H EDLEY S ALMON C HARLES N EVILL S HARPLES H ARVEY S TEPHEN S HILLIDY J OHN W ILLIAM S IMMONDS J AMES H EDLEY V IVIAN S IVEWRIGHT H OWARD N EVIL S MART J OHN D UNCAN B ROOKING S NELL P ETER H OWARD S TANDFAST M ARIO T HOMAS S TERNBURG (S ORREL ) T IMOTHY G UNN S TRATTON J AMES H ECTOR S TUBBS C AMERON A RTHUR S WINBURNE -B AILEY E RIC G EORGE T HEOPHILUS P ETER C ECIL T HOMAS E DWARD O LIVER D EANE T REND R ICHARD F RANCIS W AILES D EREK W ILLIAM W AINWRIGHT K ENNETH G EORGE J OHN W AKEFIELD A DRIAN W ARBURTON R ODNEY G EORGE W ATSON R ICHARD C ARRINGTON W AY H ARRY E VERARD W EBSTER R OBERT A NTHONY C ECIL W EBSTER O LIVER S YDNEY W EISS A RTHUR C LIFFORD W ELLINGS P ETER M AXWELL W ESTGATE C YRIL E USTACE W ILSON J OHN M ARCUS S NEATH W RIGHT J OHN S YDNEY W YNNE R ICHARD D ONALD Y ATES WW2 LOSSES IN THE COMMON ROOM T HOMAS H ANKEY SERVICE LOSSES IN BETWEEN 1919 MESOPOTAMIA C HARLES B ELL F ORD 1919 ALLIED INVENTION IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR R OGER J AMES C HOLMELEY

The Air Transport Auxiliary The King’s Royal Rifles Corps The Worcestershire Regiment Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R. Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R The Royal Armoured Corps

Fighter Command, R.A.F.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R Photo Rec, Fighter Command R.A.F./U.S.A.F. The Royal Scots Regiment The East Yorkshire Regiment The Durham Light Infantry The Royal Artillery (Att: Indian Army) The Royal Engineers “HMS Belmont”, R.N.V.R. The Norfolk Regiment The Royal Artillery The Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters)

“HMS Audacity”, R.N.V.R. Bomber Command, R.A.F.V.R.

The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire light Infantry

THEWORLDWARS &AFTE R

The Gurkha Rifles Reg. Indian Army (in action)

The Cheshire Regiment (in action)

1921 WAZIRISTAN CAMPAIGN G EORGE H OWARD P AGET

The Gurkha Reg. Indian Army (in action)

R OLL OF H ONOUR (8)

1939 AERIAL ACCIDENT (OFF UK COAST) A LLAN F REDERICK W ILLIAM M ILES 1946 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) THOMAS HENRY KENYON 1946 AERIAL ACCIDENT (LIBYA) D AVID W ILLIAM M AUDE 1947 ISRAEL/PALESTINE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE M ERTYN S WAINSTON B RADFORD -M ARTIN 1947 AERIAL ACCIDENT (GREECE) K ENNETH G AGE C RICHTON G REEN 1949 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) P ETER T HORN H OSE 1951 MALAYA (WAR OF LIBERATION) J AMES B ARRY C OOP 1953 (KOREAN WAR) R ICHARD N EVILLE -J ONES 1953 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) M ICHAEL E DWARD W HITWORTH -J ONES 1954 MALAYA (WAR OF LIBERATION) T ONY W INGFIELD H UNT 1954 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) J OHN A LUN S TRAKER J AMES 1959 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) M ICHAEL D ICKINSON 1994 AERIAL ACCIDENT (UK) J OHN R OBERT D EVERELL V ERNON H UNTLEY R IVERS 1947 EASTERN PUNJAB (INDO-PAKISTAN WAR)

Royal Air Force (Crew)

Royal Air Force (Crew)

Royal Air Force (Crew)

The Scots Guards (in action)

The Gurkha Rifles Reg. Indian Army (in action)

Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters) (in action) Royal Air Force (Crew)

The Royal Marines Commandoes (in action)

Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy (Pilot)

Royal Air Force (Pilot)

Civilian (Murdered)

Royal Air Force (Crew)

R.A.F. Cadet, Cranwell College (Pilot)

British Intelligence (Passenger)

E ARLY W ARS 1895 - 1897

“He was a boy of considerable distinction of manner and independence of character and all who were with him join us in deeply regretting the untimely loss of a promising officer and an unforgotten friend.” From the obituary of David Edward Osbourne Jones, second OSE to be lost in action, “Chronicle” December 1897.

P AGE 1

M ATABELE W ARS 1896

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

N AME WILLIAM HERBERT CLARKE (C OMMISSIONER )

L EFT SES 1886

R OLL N UMBER 525

S ET / H OUSE NA

A RRIVE SES 1882

D IED 24:05:1895

W HERE INSIGNA, MATABELELAND S ERVING WITH GWELO VOLUNTEERS FIELD FORCE

A GE 26

Buried Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Remembered Gweru Memorial (outside today’s Zimbabwe Military Museum) and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plaque)

Born Westcote Barton, Oxon 1869, the younger of two SES brothers. Very little is remembered of his time at the School. Known as ‘Nobby’. He served with the British South African Police and was present in both the two Matabele Wars. These were conflicts fought between the British South African Company and the Matabele people at first, later the Shona tribes in the rest of Southern Rhodesia. In 1893 he was included in the ‘Johannesburg Times’ Prisoner of War official list for a short while. Together with the C.E. Lamb (Roll 515) one of only ‘two OSE who served in Bechuanaland’ (Chronicle). ‘Nobby’ Clarke was known to have been in this region of the world for six years and went through the First Matabele War unscathed. He had just returned from a successful scientific and exploratory expedition across the Zambezi and Lake Tanganyika, when the second rebellion broke out and he joined the Salisbury Column as a ‘Native Commander’ charged with the relief of Bulawayo, then under siege. Just how Clarke met his death is a subject of debate, the most likely being from fever, although against his name on the Gweru Memorial there are no details shown.

P AGE 2

T IRAH C AMPAIGN 1897

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name DAVID EDWARD OSBORNE JONES (Lt)

L EFT SES 1887

R OLL N UMBER 559

S ET / H OUSE NA

A RRIVE SES 1883

D IED 22:11:1897

W HERE DWA TOI, NORTH WEST INDIA S ERVING WITH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

A GE 27

Buried Where he fell Remembered Llandingat Church, Llandovery, South Wales and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plate)

Born Llandovery 1870, the son of a clergyman, a classical scholar and a prominent member of the School choir and a thespian. He was ‘too slightly built to attain any distinction in games’ (Chronicle). After leaving School he had further private tuition, allowing him to enter The Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1889, from where was commissioned in the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment in 1890. With his regiment he travelled to India in 1897 as part of the ‘Tirah Expedition’ to restore order against local tribes, in a British controlled area of the Indian Frontier (in today’s Pakistan) and was with General Westmacott’s Brigade’s ‘wonderful march up the torrent into Dwa Toi’ (Chronicle). The West Yorks formed the right flank of this advance which was fired upon by hidden marksmen, who killed Jones and a Lance Corporal and wounded another officer who tried to rescue them. Jones had been the first British officer to reach the Arrange Pass when he was killed.

T HE B OER W AR 1900 - 1902

“He is the first of ours to fall in the service of God, King and Country. Requiescat in Pace.” “Chronicle” of December 1901 at the death of Alfred Eyton Spurling, the first OSE to die in a major war.

P AGE 3

B OER W AR (1900 - 1902)

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

N AME HERMAN MAITLAND AGNEW (L T )

L EFT SES 1892

R OLL N UMBER 795

S ET / H OUSE NA

A RRIVE SES 1891

D IED 25:12:1901

W HERE TWEEFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA S ERVING WITH IMPERIAL YEOMANRY

A GE 25

Buried Harrismith Military Cemetery, Thabo, South Africa Remembered Harrismith Military Cemetery, Memorial, Thabo, South Africa and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plaque)

Born Liverpool in 1876, the eldest of three SES brothers, all of whom joined the School in the same term. While at the School he rowed in the School IV of 1892 and later returned as part of the OSE VIII against the School in 1899. Herman only stayed at St. Edward’s for a short time before leaving to join the Bank of England in 1893, where he remained for six years. In 1899 he left the banking world and joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a Private in order to fight in the first Boer War as a volunteer. As with the seventy or so other OSE who bought in these wars, Agnew corresponded regularly with the ‘Chronicle’ giving updates of his experiences and progress. In one letter he stated “I wish that I could get a good smack at the Boers some day, but they play their game to perfection and never give us a chance”. Early in the war he suffered from fever and was also wounded, and was awarded the DSM (although he protested he had no idea why!) and in 1901 was made up to Lieutenant. He was killed on Christmas Day 1901 in a surprise attack early in the morning when the Boers over-ran the camp he was in and he was shot dead trying to organise its defences. A fellow officer commented ‘he was a very quiet plucky chap, he fell as every soldier would wish when his time came’. His younger OSE brother Percy, (Roll 796) who also served in the Boer War, was severely wounded and discharged in 1901.

P AGE 4

B OER W AR (1900 - 1902)

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

N AME ALFRED LUND (Major)

L EFT SES 1878

R OLL N UMBER 274

S ET / H OUSE NA

A RRIVE SES 1874

D IED 1902

W HERE KROONSTAD, SOUTH AFRICA S ERVING WITH THE ROYAL FUSILIERS

A GE 39

Buried Kroonstad, South Africa Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plaque)

Born in 1863, during his four years with the School his academic and sporting prowess did not warrant any mention in the records. On leaving, he joined the City of London Regiment, 5th Royal Fusiliers and by the time the Boer War broke out he was already a Major and had married in 1899. The same year his regiment was garrisoned at the Tower of London and was sent to Dover for immediate shipment out to South Africa. On the trip over Lund was accompanied by another OSE, Frederick Helbert (Roll 347), also a Major in the Royal Fusiliers. Alfred Lund served for three years in South Africa, without a scratch, but died of Enteric Fever in 1902 in Kroonstad.

P AGE 5

B OER W AR (1900 - 1902)

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

N AME ALFRED EYTON SPURLING (S GT )

L EFT SES 1896

R OLL N UMBER 870

S ET / H OUSE D

A RRIVE SES 1894

D IED 18:11:1901

W HERE ROODEPORT, SOUTH AFRICA S ERVING WITH GORRINGE’S SCOUTS

A GE 22

Buried Aliwal North Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Brass Plaque and stained glass window)

Born 1880, the son of an Oxfordshire family, he attended the Dragon School before going onto SES. He was at the School only two years. He ‘was a boy of slight frame with health none too good’ (Chronicle). Leaving School, he left for South Africa in 1896 to study farming so was on the spot when war broke out. He enlisted in the Protectorate Regiment and was present at the Siege of Mafeking, during which he managed to smuggle out letters to both his old schools describing the dire conditions. During the siege he contracted Malaria but refused to leave the trenches and go into the hospital. After the siege was lifted, he returned to England, visited both schools and showed the boys various momentous including shell cases, stamps and the “Mafeking Mail” the local newspaper. He shunned any applause - ‘he was modest as he was brave’ (Chronicle). He returned to South Africa in 1901 and joined Colonel Gorringe’s Scouts. He was promoted rapidly and recommended by Lord Kitchener for his bravery. In November at Roddeport, Cape Colony the Scouts were cornered and the commanding officer shot dead. Spurling took over command ‘keeping the Boers at bay’ until just before the relief column arrived, when he was killed in action. Spurling was the first OSE lost in a major war.