Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 182

W ORLD W AR II

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

Name ANTHONY STRANGMAN HANCOCK (Lt)

Lef SES 1941

Roll Number 3192 Died 26:04:1945

Set / House G

Arrive SES 1937

Where HUCHTING, BREMEN, GERMANY Serving with 9TH, EAST KENT REGIMENT

Age 22

Buried Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany

Remembered Codford St. Mary Roll of Honour and the St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born Staines, Middlesex 1923, the elder of two SES brothers. A House Prefect, in the 2nd Rowing VIII 1941, the School Play, Choir and the Modern VIth. ‘He was, by nature and inclination, a scholar with a keen appreciation of literature and music and the wholehearted zest which one learnt to expect of him. The boy gifted in the attributes of peace became the man killed at war’ (Chronicle). He won an Organ Scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford and his intention was to take over his parents’ preparatory school. With war breaking out he joined a Cadet Officer Training Unit in 1942 and was commissioned in the Royal Ulster Rifles, later seconded to the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). An outstanding soldier, he was mentioned in Dispatches twice and wounded three times (twice being head wounds) between 1942-44. He was killed in April 1945 pressing into Germany when his armoured vehicle detonated an electric mine at Huchting, near Bremen killing all those inside. ‘A fine leader of men, absolutely without fear’ (Chronicle).