Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 237

W ORLD W AR II

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

Name CHRISTOPHER JAMES ARCHIBALD PAULLEY

Set / House D

Lef SES 1939

Roll Number 2869 Died 17:01:1944

Arrive SES 1933

Where GUSTAV LINE. ITALY Serving with 2ND, ROY INNISKILLING FUSILIERS

Age 24

Buried Minturno War Cemetery, Lazio, Italy Remembered The Malvern WW2 Memorial, Malvern Link St. Matthias Church WW2 Memorial and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire 1920, the elder of two SES brothers. An Exhibitioner. He was a House Prefect, an Exhibitioner, a Sergeant in the OTC, and in the History VIth Form. ‘Throughout this days at School, he displayed an attractive and well-balanced temperament. His strength lay in simple sense of proportion about ordinary things and in a capacity for influencing others by his quiet sympathy and generosity of feeling. While achieving many successes which came to those who have definite capacity in their work, he displayed a keen interest in games and athletics generally and contributed a fine spirit and example to the part he played in them’ (Chronicle). He went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge as an Exhibitioner in 1940 but for a short time only as his studies were interrupted by the war. In 1940 he joined the Worcestershire Regiment as a Private, gaining a commission a year later in the same regiment. He saw action in Madagascar, India and Persia. By 1943 he was a Lieutenant, transferred to the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Italy. He was killed early in 1944 during a night-time attack across a river on the Gustav Line in Italy.