Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 25

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 HAMISH CHALMERS (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1908

Roll Number 1186 Died 13:04:1916

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1904

Where SEISTAN LAKE, INDO-PERSIA Serving with PUNJAB REGIMENT, INDIAN ARMY

Age 27

Buried Tehran Memorial Cemetery, Tehran, Iran Remembered Tehran Memorial, Iran, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1889, the elder of two Aberdonian SES brothers, neither of whom shone either academically or sportingly at the School. He was in the Moderns C Form. After leaving the School he joined the North of Scotland Bank in Aberdeen in 1909 before leaving for Ceylon to take up tea and rubber planting in 1910. He was based at Travancore, Southern India and there he took charge of The Punnurdi Tea and Rubber Company Ltd. When The Great War broke out he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers and was allocated to the 19th Punjabis at Quette, where he remained until 1915. A year later he left for Kacha in Persia and while there was sent to Seistan to investigate ‘some German-raised trouble among the hill tribes’ (Chronicle). It was there that he lost his life in action at Seistan Lake on the Indo-Perisan border, having driven hostile forces out of the villages they had plundered. ‘In his case the frontier grave is far away. Far or near the enemy is the same and the glory of the taken one indivisible’ (Chronicle).