Roll of Honour 2023
P AGE 11
W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR
S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR
Name REGINALD CROMMELIN POPHAM BLYTH (Capt)
Lef SES 1896
Roll Number 661 Died 04:06:1915
Set / House A
Arrive SES 1887
Where KRITHIA, DARDANELLES
Age 38
Serving with 1ST GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
Buried Canakkale, Gallipoli, Turkey
Remembered St. Paul’s Church WW1 Tablet, The Helles Memorial, Sedd el Bahr, Turkey and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial
Born in Darjeeling, India 1877, the son of The Bishop of Jerusalem and the East, he was at the School 1887-96, one of the longest careers at St. Edward’s. Head Boy in 1896, he was in the Cricket XI from 1893 and Captain in 1896 a member of the School Rugby XV 1893-5, also representing the School at Fives and gymnastics. In the VIth Form. In 1896 he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford and played cricket and rugby football for his college. He served in the Boer War 1899-1900 with the Gloucestershire Regiments where he was awarded the Queen’s South African Star with 2 Clasps. He reached the rank of Colonel, though found many of his duties ‘boring’, including guarding prisoners in Ceylon. He remained in India with the Divisional Staff Signalling Office and in 1908 reached the rank of ‘Bey’. In India he was known as a big game hunter, a brilliant polo player and all round sportsman. He moved to Egypt attached to the local army in 1908 working in the Sudan. During this period he also married and fathered one son (also later an OSE). When The Great War was declared he was still with the Egyptian Army, but was promptly attached to the Royal Fusiliers and sent to the Dardanelles in 1915. There he was wounded, then killed in June 1915 at Krithia ‘one of the heroes of the 29th Division, exposing himself to fire to help a wounded comrade’ (The Times).
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