Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 67

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

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

Name WALTER MICHAEL CAREW HUNT (Private)

Lef SES 1912

Roll Number 1361 Died 27:12:1916

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1910

Where BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL Serving with 54TH, CENTRAL ONTARIO REGIMENT

Age 22

Buried St. Helen’s Church, Albury, Tiddington, Warwickshire Remembered Canadian Virtual War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire in 1894, the youngest of two SES brothers, both lost in The Great War. They were sons of another OSE, The Reverend Robert Carew Hunt, Hon Canon Christ Church, Oxford. Walter, unlike his brother, was at the School only a short time, ending in the IVth Form. After leaving, he took up fruit farming in Herefordshire, then left for British Columbia, Canada where his health deteriorated. He was constantly ill and even had to return to England for treatment. Nevertheless, when war was declared he enlisted in the Kootenay Canadian Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Nelson as a Private, after failing his health exams several times. On the return to England with his regiment, the seas were very rough, causing his illness to worsen and it was many months before he could venture outdoors again. By the Autumn of 1916 he was in France with his regiment and in November was severely wounded and suffered a fractured thigh. He was treated at No. 1 Hospital, Etretat then transferred to Birkenhead Hospital where he died in December.