Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 39

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 LESLIE JOHN EDGAR CUTHBERT FAIRWEATHER

Lef SES 1912

Roll Number 1326 Died 19:03:1916

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1909

Where DIED OF WOUNDS, FRANCE Serving with 3RD, LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 21

Buried Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1895 in Wadhurst, Kent, little is known of his School life except that he was in the Shell Form on leaving. In August 1914 he enlisted as a Private in the 1st Infantry Battalion of The Honourable Artillery Regiment and the following month left for France. In December 1914 he was invalided home with frost-bitten feet and on recovery was commissioned and transferred to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment and also appointed a Machine-Gun Officer in December 1915. In January 1916 he was promoted to Lieutenant in France and was badly wounded in March. He died of his wounds on 19th March 1916 in the Armentieres Region of France.