Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 20

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 ARTHUR GEORGE CONINGSBY CAPELL (Capt)

Lef SES 1894

Roll Number 822 Died 12:03:1915

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1893

Where NEUVE CHAPELLE, FRANCE Serving with NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 36

Buried Behind the lines, Neuve Chapelle, France Remembered Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Passenham, Northamptonshire 1879, the son of a clergyman from Stony Stratford, and was at the School only a short time. Very little is known of him after he left the School with the next information being that he fought in the Boer War as a Trooper with the 19th Battalion, 68th Paget’s and Bethune’s Horse, Imperial Yeomanry. He ended his time in South Africa with the rank of Lieutenant in 1901. He was awarded the Queen’s South African Medal with 2 Clasps. While in South Africa he was ‘gazetted into the regular forces with the 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment’ - Lieutenant in 1904 and Captain in 1910. When The Great War erupted, he went immediately with his regiment to France in October 1914 and was killed in action early on, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in France fighting with elements of the original British Expeditionary Force.