Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 12

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 ARCHIBALD THOMAS BOSTOCK (Capt)

Lef SES 1889

Roll Number 676 Died 30:09:1915

Set / House -

Arrive SES 1887

Where CLEARING HOSPITAL, LOOS Serving with 14TH, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS

Age 38

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born in Horsham 1878, the elder of two SES brothers, sons of a surgeon, both of whom fought in the Boer Wars and The Great War. Archibald’s stay at the School was a short one moving onto the English College in Bruges in 1889, then Lancing College 1891-3. In 1895 he was apprenticed to an engineering firm and elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1895. He served in the Boer War in 1900 with the 12th Battalion Suffolk Yeomanry (Imperial Yeomanry) and was awarded the Queen’s South African Medal, discharged in 1901. He then took up employment with the South African government for five years as Assistant Engineer for Maintenance in the survey and and construction of the Imperial Military Railway in Pretoria. In 1906 he left for Ceylon, working in several major projects in the Columbo area. In 1911 he moved to China working on the Canton-Hankow Railway , returning to England at the outbreak of war. In 1914 he returned to England (via Siberia) and enlisted in the 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, quickly rising to the rank of Captain by 1915. He was badly wounded in the early fighting around Loos ‘by the fire of battery of quick fires, while reconnoitring a position’ (Chronicle) and was carried to one of the local Clearing Hospitals where he died of his wounds to his side and leg in late September.