Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 116

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 ALEXANDER MOULTRIE WALLACE (Capt)

Lef SES 1899

Roll Number 872

Set / House D

Arrive SES 1894

Died 12:03:1915

Where NEUVE CHAPELLE, FRANCE

Serving with 3RD, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 34

Buried No known grave

Remembered Le Touquet Memorial, War Memorial at St. Margaret’s Church, Oxford, St. Stephen’s Lady Chapel, Windsor, South Leigh Churchyard, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1881 in South Leigh, Oxon the son of a clergyman. He was a School Prefect, a member of the Rugby Football XV 1897-9 (Captain in 1899), Cricket XI 1897-8 and in the VIth Form. He fought in the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry (Oxford), wounded and hospitalised at Bloemfontein in 1902. Awarded the South African Queen’s Medal. He then returned to civilian life and spent long spells in Africa and Mexico, from where he sent graphic accounts of the great earthquake of 1911 to the School. In 1913 he was in Sierra Leone. He returned to England in 1914 and married the same year, one daughter born after Alexander’s death. At the outbreak of WW1 he enlisted as a Trooper in the 2nd, King Edward’s Horse in August 1914, then quickly earned a commission in the 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in December 1914. A rapid promotion to Captain followed in February 1915. He was on the Western Front early in 1915 and killed in action soon afterwards in early March, during the fierce fighting around Neuve Chapelle. A non-OSE brother was also killed in the war.