Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 223

W ORLD W AR II

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

Name GILES FIRBANK MUNDY (Lt)

Lef SES 1941

Roll Number 3083 Died 25:05:1944

Set / House F

Arrive SES 1936

Where GOTHIC LINE, ITALY Serving with 1ST BATTALION, SCOTS GUARDS

Age 22

Buried Caserta War Cemetery, Campania, Italy Remembered The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born in South Africa 1922, the younger of two SES brothers, both killed in the war, sons of a medical doctor. He was a School Prefect, a member of the Rowing VIII in 1941, Captain of the Squash team 1941, in the School Swimming and Shooting teams, a Sacristan, an Under-Officer in the JTC and in the Science VIth. ‘He had a special charm and gentleness so difficult to think of him as a soldier, though he had the essential qualities of calm and bravery, especially in his sorrows of which he seemed to have had more than his share’ (Chronicle). Straight from school, he joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps as a Lance Corporal in 1941, then later the same year transferred to a Officer Cadet Training Unit. In 1942 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Scots Guards and posted to Italy. Killed in action May 1944 on the Gothic Line in Italy. Brought in to support the 6th South African Armoured Division, the 24th Guards Division including the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards and 5th Battalion Grenadier Guards were added to the Gothic Line front on 20th May 1944. It was during this time that Giles Mundy was killed. His elder OSE brother, Herbert had been killed in an air accident earlier in the war.