Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 72

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 RICHARD EDWARD WILLIAM KAY-MOUAT (Lt)

Lef SES 1902

Roll Number 1075 Died 03:11:1914

Set / House D

Arrive SES 1900

Where LONGIDO, EAST AFRICA Serving with EAST AFRICAN MOUNTED INFANTRY

Age 30

Buried Dar-es-Salaam War Cemetery, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Remembered Merton College, Oxford WW1 War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and the Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1884, he had a short and uneventful time at St. Edward’s, however was in the VIth Form on leaving. He went up to Merton College, Oxford then travelled out to South Africa in 1906 and by 1908 was living in Nairobi. When war commenced, he enlisted with the East African Mounted Infantry (Bowker’s Horse) and was killed soon after the war started in early November 1914, during a suicidal cavalry charge at Longido in East Africa. He was ‘shot in the head while trying to help a comrade’ (His Commanding Officer).