Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 14

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 JOHN PAUL RIDGEWAY BRIDSON (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1914

Roll Number 1267 Died 25:09:1915

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1907

Where LOOS, FRANCE Serving with 8TH, DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 19

Buried Loos British Cemetery, Pas-de Calais, France Remembered The Bridson Brothers Memorial Window, St. Margaret’s Church, Oxford and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Southport 1896, the younger of two SES brothers, both killed in The Great War. Little recorded of his School career except that ‘he was always very keen on the OTC, which came into being during his time at St. Edward’s’ (Chronicle) . On leaving he was in the IVth Form and was a Corporal in the OTC. He left the School, enlisted immediately and was commissioned in the 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, despite at first being rejected on health grounds. Appointed Signals Officer, he was in France with his regiment in October 1914, when he was wounded in the stomach as he tried ‘to get back for help beyond the first German trench’. He was killed the following year in September during the Battle of Loos. ‘He went over the top after the rest, with telephone wires and was never seen again. It was probable he was blown to pieces by a shell. He was said to have been severely wounded but this was never satisfactorily confirmed’ (Chronicle). His remains were found later and buried in Loos Cemetery. He had been engaged to be married shortly before his death.

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