Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 84

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 EDWARD DOUGLAS MURRAY (Lt)

Roll Number 1002 Died 20:07:1916

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1898

Lef SES 1901

Where DELVILLE WOOD, SOMME, FRANCE Serving with 8TH, THE BLACK WATCH

Age 32

Buried Communal Corbie Cemetery, Somme Remembered

Waddesdon Church War Memorial, Buckinghamshire, Chadwick Parish Churchyard East Dorset Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Wick, Dorset in 1884, the youngest of three SES brothers, sons of a clergyman. He was at the School a relatively short time, winning the Junior High Jump and a member of the VIth Form. On leaving he read Law at London University and qualified as a solicitor. At the outbreak of The Great War he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 11th Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in May 1915. A year later he was promoted to Lieutenant with the 8th Battalion. He was heavily involved in the intense fighting around Delville Wood (or Devil’s Wood as the Tommies called it) during the Somme Offensive. He died in late July after being badly wounded on the 10th, and dying ten days later in a Clearing Hospital.