Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 29

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 RICHARD CONNER (Major)

Lef SES 1886

Roll Number 434 Died 07:09:1915

Set / House -

Arrive SES 1879

Where BROOKWOOD CEMETERY, WOKING Serving with GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 47

Buried Devon Remembered St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church WW1 Memorial, North Tyneside, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born Carrigaline, Cork, Ireland 1868, the younger of two SES brothers, sons of an Army Captain. He arrived at the School, together with his brother, where they remained for seven years. He was in the Cricket XI in his final year and in the VIth Form. On leaving the School, he joined the regular army in 1888 with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served throughout the Boer War as a Captain in the 1/2 Battalion, wounded at Nicholson’s Nek, then taken prisoner in 1900 outside Ladysmith, later released. He was awarded the Queen’s South African Medal with 3 Clasps and the King’s South African Medal with 2 Clasps. He later returned to England and commanded a military depot in Bristol. With the outbreak of WW1, he held the rank of Major and was taken prisoner at Ypres in May 1915 and sent to a camp in Gutersloh, Westphalia where it was found that he had contracted a serious throat infection which turned out to be incurable (probably cancer). He was treated well by his captors and exchanged in July 1915: ‘Nothing could exceed the kindness of the doctors to him’ (a fellow patient) and sent back to a London hospital, where he was operated on, but from which he died later in September 1915.