Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 109

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 LEONE SEXTUS TOLLEMACHE (Major)

Lef SES 1900

Roll Number 920 Died 20:02:1917

Arrive SES 1897

Set / House B

Where CLEARING STATION, FRANCE Serving with AUSTRALIAN EXPEDI’Y FORCE

Age 33

Buried Dernacourt Communal Cemetery Ext, Picardie Remembered Menin Court Memorial, Ypres, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1884 in South Witham, Lincolnshire - the sixth son of a very eccentric clergyman who fathered a huge family. One brother also went to St. Edward’s and was lost in The Great War. Each brother was ‘blessed with having seven Christian names’! He was a School Prefect and held a School Scholarship and was in the VIth Form on leaving. He went on to Sandhurst, passing out in 1903 and commissioned in the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, he was a Captain by 1912 having been stationed in India 1906-11. Whilst in India he learnt the Hindustani and Persian languages. He was married in April 1914 and left one son. After the war broke out he was attached to the 1st Battalion in France from September 1914 to June 1915 when he was invalided out. After ‘special service’ in Egypt he returned to the Western Front in March 1916 as a Brigade-Major with the Australian Expeditionary Force and was Mentioned in Dispatches. While in France he developed double pneumonia from which he died at a Casualty Clearing Station in February 1917.