Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 33

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 WALTER FREDERICK DEW

Lef SES 1880

Roll Number 429 Died 09:07:1915

Set / House -

Arrive SES 1879

Where DEVON, ENGLAND

Age 51

Serving with EX 7TH BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT

Buried Devon

Remembered St. Edward’s School Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1864 in Witney, the son of a clergyman. He was only at the School a short time and when he left was in the Moderns Form in the Upper School. He enlisted in the 16th Lancers in 1882, before leaving for Malaya where he was successfully involved in coffee, Cinchona Coconut, tea and rubber planting. During this time he married in 1895, and was also a member of the Ceylon Rifles. In February he returned to England and was commissioned in the Bedfordshire Regiment as a Captain and left for France. This only lasted three months, as he relinquished his commission due to ill health (caused by stress) and died in England the following July. He was buried in Devon.