Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 30

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 RONALD CORRIE (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1904

Roll Number 1114 Died 23:04:1917

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1902

Where LE TOUQUET Serving with 1ST, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 30

Buried Etaples Part II UK Graves, France Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born in Bromley, Kent 1887, he was at SES a short time and about whom little is known. On leaving he was in the Middle Moderns Form. From the time he left School until shortly before The Great War, he worked at the London Stock Exchange and was married in 1913. When war was declared he enlisted as a Private in the London Regiment (Artists Rifles) November 1914. A year later he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and transferred to the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, immediately sent to Belgium, where he was slightly wounded in the thigh and back in November 1915, following the severe fighting at Hooge, Belgium. While recuperating in London he qualified as a ‘Bombing Officer’, and by July 1916 was the Regimental Bombing Officer. By Easter 1917 he was back in the thick of the fighting at Arras, in charge of Details behind the trenches, but at 2am on 23 April 1917 he was ordered forward to take charge of German prisoners in a captured village. Here he was hit by a shell fragment in his hip and immediately transferred to the Duchess of Westminster Hospital at Le Touquet, where he underwent a difficult and acute operation. This was only partly successful as gangrene had set in and he faded and died.