Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 24

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 LESLIE CHALMERS (Capt)

Lef SES 1909

Roll Number 1231 Died 27:03:1918

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1906

Where FRANCE Serving with ROYAL FLYING CORPS

Age 27

Buried Pozieres Memorial Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle, France Remembered Pozieres British Memorial near Albert, France, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Aberdeen 1891, the younger of two SES brothers, both of whom would be lost in The Great War. As with his brother the records show nothing exceptional about his time at the School either scholastically or in sport. On leaving he was in Moderns D Form. In 1914 he enlisted in the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers in Dublin as a Private and was commissioned a year later. Sent with his regiment to the Dardanelles, he was seriously wounded in June 1916, sent home but was able to rejoin his regiment in France in April 1917. The same year he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Captain and wounded from second time in the area of Cambria in September. In February 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) although this only came to light after his death. He was killed in action in France in late March 1918 on the very day he was due to have left for six months leave in England. His elder OSE brother William had been killed in Indo-Persia two years earlier.