Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 117

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 ERIC WALLACE WARE (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1910

Roll Number 1332 Died 18:10:1916

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1909

Where CATERPILLAR VALLEY, SOMME Serving with 2ND, WILTSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 20

Buried Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France Remembered St. Martin’s Church, Milford, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1896 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, one of two SES brothers. Eric was only at St. Edward’s for four months, reasons unknown. When he left he was in the Moderns D Form. He joined the Wiltshire Yeomanry before the war started and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment in Norwich in February 1915. Transferred to the 10th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment and moved with them to the Dardanelles in October 1915. His service here was short as by January 1916 he was back in France now with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, his former regiment. In October 1916 he was reported wounded ‘in the neck and stomach and reported as missing’ later confirmed as killed ‘by at least 5 machine-gun bullets’. This was in the notorious Caterpillar Valley Region of the front, scene of some of the fiercest fighting during the Somme Offensive.