Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 100

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 LEWIS THIERRY SEYMOUR (Lt)

Roll Number 1290 Died 13:08:1916

Lef SES 1912

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1908

Where BEAUMONT HAMEL, ANCRE, FRANCE Serving with YORK & LANCASHIRE REGIMENT

Age 23

Buried Englebelmer Communal Group of Cemeteries, Picardie Remembered

Great War Memorial, St. Margaret’s Church, Oxford, Christ Church (Choristers) Memorial, The St. Edward’s Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1893 in Hyderabad, India the second son of three SES brothers, sons of a Medical Doctor. He held a Scholarship to the School from the Christ Church Cathedral School, he was a member of the Rugby XV and the Cricket XI of 1911 and 1912 and was a noted Shakespearian actor, a Sergeant in the OTC and in the VIth Form. In October 1911 he won a Classical Exhibition to Wadham College, Oxford as an Elected Classical Exhibitioner and in the following summer passed the Oxford & Cambridge Senior Certificate with a Distinction in Divinity and for a time attended the Christ Church Cathedral School. When war was declared, as he had been born overseas, he joined the 1st King Edward’s Horse (Overseas Dominions) in October 1914 as a Corporal. In May 1915 he was commissioned in the York and Lancaster Regiment as a Second Lieutenant. In September that year he attended a machine gun course at Strensall, North Yorkshire and was promoted to Lieutenant. He returned to France early in 1916. He was killed in action by a trench-mortar at the Ancre, during the fierce fighting around Beaumont Hamel in France, ‘while working with a small trench group’. The mortar wiped out his entire section.