Roll of Honour 2023

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

P AGE 9

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

N AME LAWRENCE CAVE BLENCOWE (S EC L T ) R OLL N UMBER 1064 S ET / H OUSE E D IED 29:6:1917 A RRIVE SES 1900

L EFT SES 1905

W HERE BOIS GRENIER, FRANCE S ERVING WITH 10 TH KING’S (LIVERPOOL) SCOTTISH

A GE 30

Buried Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium Remembered The Queen’s College, Oxford War Memorial, The Ploegsteert Memorial, Northern Flanders and The St. Edwards School Chapel (Wooden Plaque)

Born in Banbury in 1887, the elder of two SES brothers, sons of a clergyman, both of whom were killed in The Great War and also part of a greater family, who lost many other members in like manner. Lawrence had an outstanding School career: Head of School in 1905, he was in the School Cricket XI from 1902-5, Captain in his last year when he scored 377 runs in nine innings as well as winning the prestigious School’s Fielding Prize. He excelled at Rugby Football and was in the School XV from 1903-5 (Captain 1905) - during his last season the School played a record 20 fixtures all told, winning nine. Blencowe also rowed in his Set Boat in the Bumpers. He was an outstanding athlete. In the opinion of Wilfrid Cowell (in 1922) ‘Lawrence Blencowe was the finest footballer ever to play at St. Edward’s’. Blencowe went up to Queens’s College, Oxford in 1906, playing rugby football for the Freshmen in his first year followed by two full Rugby Blues in 1907 and 1908. During 1907, 1910 and 1912 he had several trials for the England XV but never won a Cap as was considered ‘too short’. He played his club rugby for Richmond RFC and The Harlequins RFC. After University he and his brother Oswald (also OSE) started the Orleton School, Scarborough in 1912. When war broke out Oswald enlisted immediately and was killed in action in 1916. Lawrence joined up in the Liverpool Scottish in 1917, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and was killed in the Bois Grenier, near Armentieres, France, ‘leading an attack’ in June 1917. He is also remembered on The St. Edward’s Cloisters Stone Memorial.