Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 113

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 BEVERLEY USSHER (Capt)

Lef SES 1898

Roll Number 783 Died 14:06:1915

Set / House D

Arrive SES 1891

Where HELLES, THE DARDANELLES Serving with 88TH BRIGADE, LEINSTER REG

Age 36

Buried Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Kwithia, Gallipoli, Turkey Remembered St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1879 in Osmaston, Derbyshire, the eldest of three SES brothers, all of whom would be lost during or because of The Great War. They were the sons of a clergyman. In a long and distinguished career at St. Edward’s, he was a School Prefect, a member of the Cricket XI 1895-1898 (Captain in his final year), ‘A brilliant cricketer’ (Chronicle), who scored two centuries as a school boy and two more as an OSE at the School. He was also a member of the Rugby Football XV 1894-1897 (Captain in his last year), he was in the Lower VIth Form on leaving. He went up to Wadham College, Oxford which he represented both at cricket and rugby football. In 1900 he took a University Commission and joined the Leinster Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in Barbados, later crossing the ocean to take part in the Boer Wars. He was awarded the South African Queen’s Medal with four Clasps. He also served in St. Lucia and India (where he married - two children). A lieutenant in 1902, Adjutant 1906, Captain 1910 - and just prior to The Great War was appointed Commander of Cadets at Sandhurst. In May 1915 he went out with ‘the Immortal 29th Division’ to the Dardanelles as a Staff Captain to the 88th Brigade. He was killed, observing a night attack, at Helles, hit ‘by enemy fire while making way for British troops attacking recently lost trenches’.