Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 23

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 WILLIAM BENJAMIN CRANE CAWOOD (Capt)

Lef SES 1888

Roll Number 571 Died 24:05:1915

Set / House -

Arrive SES 1884

Where MHOW, CENTRAL INDIA Serving with SUSSEX BATTERY 1st Home Counties Brigade

Age 46

Buried Mhow Military Cemetery, Madhya Pradesh, India Remembered

Keble College, Oxford, Memorial, The Cawood Memorial, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Bayton, Worcestershire, The Kirk Memorial, Poona, India and The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and the Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Pensax, Worcs 1869, the son of a clergyman, little is known of his School career. He went up to Keble College, Oxford in 1888, BA in 1902. In 1904 he purchased the Holland House Preparatory School in Brighton and took over as Headmaster. Both he and the Second Master spent the holidays with the 3rd Sussex Battery of the 1st Home Counties Brigade, so it came as no surprise that when WW1 broke out they joined this Brigade on a full time basis in November 1914, and were sent to Mhow in Central India. Soon after arriving in India, Cawood died suddenly of natural causes on 24th May 1915. The ‘Chronicle’ described his death as follows: - ‘Being Whit Monday, the Battery had a holiday and a cricket match was arranged by the officers and sergeants and other NCOs. Cawood made nine runs and after his innings was talking and joking with other officers without showing any signs of distress. He suddenly became unconscious and died within a few minutes. He was later buried with full military honours’. His body was carried on a gun carriage and the 4th Buffs provided full escort and band.