Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 152

W ORLD W AR II

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

Name MICHAEL BROOKE CRICKMAY (Capt)

Set / House G

Lef SES 1937

Roll Number 2908 Died 19:09:1944

Arrive SES 1934

Where NEAR BOULOGNE, FRANCE Serving with THE ROYAL ENGINEERS

Age 24

Buried Calais Canadian War Cemetery, Calais, France Remembered Chapel of the Resurrection, St. Mary’s Church Elmbridge, Surrey and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born in Reigate, Surrey 1920, he was ‘an athlete, solid and gentleman; a boy with the gift of firm friendships, then a man with abilities his modesty would always try and hide; a great fellow with a shy laugh, who was popular wherever he went’ (Chronicle). A member of the School Rugby Football XV 1936/7, Cricket XI 1937, Hockey XI 1937, Swimming Team, a House Prefect, L/Sgt OTC and in the Lower VIth History Form. After leaving he was a a Quantity Surveyor and on the outbreak of war he joined the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment as a Private in 1939 before going into an Officer Training Unit 1941. The same year he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers - a Captain by 1944. He was killed in action in September 1944 commanding the lead tank in the final assault on Boulogne. ‘As a leader, he was always sympathetic and helpful’ (His Padre).