Roll of Honour 2023

P AG 26

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 VERNON CLARE (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1912

Roll Number 1381 Died 15:09:1916

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1911

Where STARFISH REDOUBT, SOMME Serving with 1ST SURREY RIFLES

Age 21

Buried Warlencourt British Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Remembered South African Roll of Honour, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Jamaica in 1895, he was only at the School for one year, previously being educated at Wychwood School, Bournemouth and Weenen County School, Natal, matriculating from Cape University at a very early age. While only at St. Edward’s a short time, he became devoted to the School and its influence led him ‘to enlist for foreign service and, later, in spite of some dissuasion, to seek a commission’ (Chronicle). He was in the Upper Moderns Form. He had been hoping to qualify for actuarial work and was employed in the Calculating Room of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Cornhill, London after leaving the School. He was also elected onto the Kent County Council in 1913. With the outbreak of hostilities he enlisted as a Private with the 12th Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rangers) in August 1914. A year later he was in France with his regiment. In July he caught malarial fever, necessitating hospital treatment which he received in Calais. Recovered in February 1916 he was commissioned (reluctantly) to Second Lt and transferred to the 1st Surrey Rifles. During the Somme offensive he was killed in action ‘leading his platoon in a very dangerous attack’ on September 1916 during the Battle for High Wood.