Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 103

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 HENRY PLANTAGENET SOMERSET (Capt)

Lef SES 1904

Roll Number 1052 Died 7:9:1921

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1900

Where WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE Serving with ARMY SERVICE CORPS

Age 36

Buried Winchester, Hampshire Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1885 in Raglan, Monmouthshire, son of a clergyman, he was a School Prefect, a member of the Rugby XV 1903 and an early editor of the ‘Chronicle’. He was the Great Grandson of the 5th Duke of Beaufort. He won a University Prize Essay which attracted the attention of his future employers including the ‘Morning Post’, who he joined as Secretary to the Editor in 1910. With war erupting, he joined the Inns of Court OTC and in 1915 was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps as a Second Lieutenant transferring to the 10th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, then sent to ‘the Mediterranean’ in November 1915 as part of Lord Allenby’s Palestine Campaign, then in Gallipoli. During this time he contracted a ‘malady’ (Chronicle) from which he never recovered and eventually died from. This malady was never elaborated on but could have been Tuberculosis. Promoted to Captain and Adjutant in November 1918. He went up to Queen’s College, Oxford, achieving an MA in 1919, despite continuous ill health and he died in Winchester in 1921.