Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 27

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 HUGH FRANCIS CLOUGH (Lt)

Lef SES 1900

Roll Number 1042 Died 14:03:1917

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1899

Where NORTH OF BAGHDAD Serving with 1/4 TH ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT

Age 29

Buried Al Basrah Memorial Cemetery, Iraq

Remembered Basrah Memorial, The Woodham War Memorial, Surrey, Iraq & Woodham War Memorial Aylestone, Surrey, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Tunbridge Wells in 1888, he was only at the School for one year as a Day-boy, leaving due to ill-health. He was described in the ‘Chronicle’ as being ‘slight and delicate but grew very tall and strong later’. He was in the Upper IIIrd Form. Nothing is known of his years immediately after leaving the School, but in 1913 he joined the Territorial Army and was later commissioned in the 1/4th Royal West Kent Regiment in Quetta, India in May 1915. The same year he passed a signalling course, also in Quetta. The same year he was transferred to the Mesopotamian Front and was wounded early in 1916. After recovery, he was appointed Brigade Signalling Officer and six months later attached to the Signalling Division of his regiment in Mesopotamia. He was killed in action in ‘a sharp exchange’ with the enemy’s rearguard north of Baghdad in mid-March 1917. His commanding officer wrote: - ‘Clough was killed instantly and died without pain with a bullet through his heart while overseeing the laying forward of the communications to the Battalion Headquarters. He was the most dependable staff officer, clever, far-seeing, confident and absolutely no fear’.