Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 15

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 DESMOND CECIL BAGGE BRIEN (Sec Lt)

Set / House A

Lef SES 1910

Roll Number 1203 Died 02:10:1915

Arrive SES 1905

Where LOOS, FRANCE Serving with 3RD CHESHIRE REGIMENT

Age 21

Buried Dud Corner Cemetery, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France Remembered Loos Memorial, Birkenhead War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Rock Ferry, Cheshire 1894, the son of a doctor and sometime Mayor of Birkenhead, the younger of two SES brothers - both killed in The Great War. Little is known of his time at the School. On leaving he went to work at Cammel Laird’s Works in Liverpool in 1911, where he remained until the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. He enlisted as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment in November 1914 and was then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment (Special Reserve) in May 1915. By October be was in France when he was reported as ‘missing’, later confirmed as killed in action - a fact not confirmed until December 1915. The actual place of his death has never been recorded. His demise was one of a succession of family tragedies, his mother dying three days after Desmond’s death from an operation and ten days later his brother Edward (also OSE) was killed in action in Flanders.