Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 263

W ORLD W AR II

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

Name CAMERON ARTHUR SWINBURNE-BAILEY (Lt)

Lef SES 1941

Set / House B

Roll Number 3090 Died 29:09:1944

Arrive SES 1936

Where SEINE, FRANCE Serving with 2ND BATT , KING’S ROYAL RIFLES CORPS

Age 22

Buried Bray-Et-Lu Communal Cemetery, France Remembered The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born Croydon, Surrey 1922. He was a House Prefect, Editor of the ‘Chronicle’, Hon Sec of the Arts Society, Lance Sergeant OTC and the History VIth. ‘There was that utter selflessness in his spirit that could not be contented without anything less than we had all seen what he could do with his brush and pen. Some of his poems are reprinted in the December 1944 ‘Chronicle’. We shall all remember with affection his self-depreciating habit of thought, his loyal friendship and his genuine sincerity’ (Chronicle). He joined the war effort straight from School with the King’s Royal Rifles Corps, as a Lance Corporal. He then gained a commission with the same regiment a year later and was promoted Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion (‘The Queen’s Westminsters’) in 1943. He was killed when his tracked vehicle hit a German mine near the River Seine in France during the inland advance towards Germany after D-Day.