Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 107

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 MORICE BELL THOMPSON (Lt)

Lef SES 1911

Roll Number 1253 Died 03:05:1917

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1906

Where MONCHY-LE-PREUX, FRANCE Serving with MACHINE GUN CORPS (INFANTRY)

Age 25

Buried Monchy British Cemetery, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France Remembered

The Arras Memorial, St. Nicholas Church Fyfield Oxon, the Dragon School WW1 Memorial, St. John’s College Oxford, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1892 in Barcelly, India the son of a clergyman, he was a School Prefect, a member of the Rugby Football XV 1908-1910, Rowing IV 1909-11 and VIII 1909-11, he was in the Vth B Form. He went up to St. John’s College, Oxford in October 1911 and played in his College and the Varsity ‘A’ rugby football teams in his first year. He also rowed in the Torpids, when St. John’s won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley in 1912. He took his degree in 1914 with a 4th Class BA in Chemistry. When war broke out he was commissioned in the 8th Battalion, The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment at Cosford in August 1914. A year later he was transferred to the 9th Battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry in July 1915. Fast-forward to November 1916 he was on a Lewis Gunnery Course and in training to be an Observer in the Royal Flying Corps. Yet another change meant that with a promotion to Lieutenant he was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). He was killed in action early in May 1917 at Monchy-Le-Preux in France, taking his machine-gun action into action and then endeavouring to retrieve one of his wounded men. ‘He is a great lost me both as an Officer and as a friend’ (Commanding Officer).