Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 75

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 NOEL GILBERT BRYAN KING (Lt)

Lef SES 1903

Roll Number 1031 Died 07:06:1917

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1899

Where MESSINES RIDGE, FLANDERS Serving with B COY, WILTSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 32

Buried No Known Grave Remembered Menin Gates at Ypres, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1888 in Avebury, Wiltshire, the son of a clergyman. He career at the School was largely unchronicled: he was in the IVth Form on leaving. He went up to Oxford University in 1904 as a Non-College student. Later he was a teacher at Marlborough House, Cranbrook, Kent and reading for Holy Orders 1913-14 when the war broke out. He was commissioned in the 7th Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) in Marlborough in February 1915 and by August was in France with his regiment. Promoted to Lieutenant in May 1916, returning to England he was appointed second-in command B Company, Bovington Camp, Wareham in June 1917, before returning to Belgium. He was killed in action attacking the notorious Messines Ridge in West Flanders, Belgium in June 1917.