Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 68

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 JAMES CHARLES HYDE (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1914

Roll Number 1302 Died 01:07:1916

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1908

Where GONNECOURT, FRANCE Serving with 1/5TH, SHERWOOD FORESTERS

Age 21

Buried Picardie, France Remembered Thiepval Memorial, The Matlock War Memorial, The Matlock War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1895 in Finsbury Park, London, eldest of two SES brothers, the sons of clergy. He had a long career at the School, a member of the Cricket XI in 1913 and 1914, a 2nd XV Colour for Rugby Football (and the XV on occasion) and a member of the Lower IVth Form. After leaving school he matriculated at Selwyn College, Cambridge but did not complete his studies. He enlisted as a Private in the London Scottish Regiment in May 1915, fighting with them as part of the British Expeditionary Force at Loos and being slightly wounded. In November 1915 he was commissioned in the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire (The Sherwood Foresters) Regiment as a Second Lieutenant and immediately returned to the Western Front. He was again slightly wounded, a month later. He was killed in action the following summer, on the first day of the Somme offensive at Gonnecourt, France. ‘He had only joined four days , and in that short time had endeared himself to officers and men, and died most gallantly at the head of his platoon with a few yards of the enemy parapet’ (His Captain).