Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 16

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 EDWARD HENRY BRIEN (Pte)

Lef SES 1905

Roll Number 1131 Died 20:12:1915

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1902

Where YPRES, FLANDERS, BELGIUM Serving with MANITOBA REGIMENT OF CANADA

Age 28

Buried Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium Remembered Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Page 6), The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Dublin 1887, the elder of two SES brothers, both lost in The Great War, sons of a doctor and sometime Mayor of Birkenhead. As with his brother, little is known or recorded of his time at the School, though he was a member of the Upper IVth Form. On leaving, studied medicine in England and Canada. Being in Canada when the War broke out, he enlisted as a Private in the 15th Canadian Light Horse in November 1914, transferring to the 17th Canadian Cavalry Field Ambulance (due to his prior training) in May 1915 and was moved to France. Wounded and hospitalised in France 1915. The last regiment he was attached to was the 27th Battalion, Manitoba Regiment, Canadian Army Infantry shortly before he died. He was killed in action in Flanders, on a night patrol 20th December 1915, ten days after his younger brother’s own demise in action and seven days after his mother’s death after an operation.