Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 106

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 HENRY BLUNDELL THOMPSON (Lt)

Lef SES 1908

Roll Number 1125 Died 02:10:1917

Set / House D

Arrive SES 1902

Where LANGEMARCK, FLANDERS Serving with ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

Age 27

Buried Canadian Farm Cemetery, Leper, Belgium Remembered Canada Farm Cemetery Memorial Scroll, St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1890 in Liverpool, one of four SES brothers, over a long spell at the School he achieved much including being a School Prefect, a member of the Cricket XI 1904-7 and the Rugby Football XV 1907-1908. Also something of an athlete, he won the Junior Hurdles and Broad Jump in 1905. He was in the VIth Form. On leaving the School he played his club Rugby Football with Harlequins RFC 1909-10. In 1911 he left for Ceylon to join his elder brother (also OSE) and became the Manager of the Yatta Waste, Matele. A married man, he was well known as a expert horseman and a member of The Ceylon Turf Club. When WW1 broke out, he joined the Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps in February 1915, was then commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in October 1915 and sent to Gallipoli. Eventually evacuated from Sulva and sent to Egypt and from there to France in March 1916 as a Lieutenant. He took part in the heaviest of the fighting at Passchendale and all across the Flanders fronts. He was killed in action at Langemarck in Flanders, Belgium in early October 1917.