Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 110

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 LEO QUINTUS TOLLEMACHE (Capt)

Lef SES 1900

Arrive SES 1897

Roll Number 919 Died 1:11:1914

Set / House B

Where WYTSCHAETE, FLANDERS, Serving with 3RD, LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 30

Buried Menin Gate Cemetery, Ypres, Leper, West Flanders, Belgium Remembered Menin Gate Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1879, in South Witham, Lincolnshire, the fifth son of a very eccentric clergyman with an enormous family. One brother also went to St. Edward’s and was killed in The Great War. Like his brother, he went to Sandhurst in 1900, passing out in 1903. A married man in 1906. Commissioned in the 3rd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and a Captain by the time The Great War erupted. Immediately in action in France, he was Mentioned in Dispatches, the reported ‘wounded and missing’ in October 1914. Confirmed as ‘killed in action’ in early November 1914 at Wytschaete in Flanders.