Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 129

W AZIRIUSTAN 1921

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name GEORGE HOWARD PAGET (Lt Col)

Roll Number 1274 Died 11:12:1921

Lef SES 1914

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1907

Where DATTA KHEL, AFGAN BORDER Serving with 1/3 GURKHA RIFLES

Age 24

Buried No known grave Remembered

Born 1897 in Elford, Staffordshire, one of four SES brothers, the sons of a well known and connected St. Edward’s family, several of whom had very distinguished war records. George was a member of the Rugby Football XV 1913 and the Rowing IV 1914, he was in the Upper Moderns Form. With the outbreak of war he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in The North Staffordshire Regiment in August 1914 and immediately went out to France. Promoted to Lieutenant in September 1915. In November he was seriously wounded, shot through the thigh and returned to England, where he spent a long spell at The Somerville College Hospital in Oxford. Various ‘experimental’ treatments did little to speed his recovery. By July 1917 he was on the staff of the Oxford Cadet Battalion (19th Artist’s Rifles) in Romford. In June 1918 he was a Captain in a Reserve Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment in Lincolnshire. He joined the Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in September 1918. There he was selected to be attached to the 1/3 Gurkha Rifles in 1918. He married in 1920. He served with the Gurkhas through the Waziristan Campaign and was killed in an ambush in December 1920, when the Gurkhas took over 70 casualties..