Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 41

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 TREVOR MAWDSLEY FOOTE (Act Colonel)

Lef SES 1893

Roll Number 739 Died 10:07:1917

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1889

Where YPRES Serving with 8TH, NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT

Age 40

Buried Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Remembered

Stained-glass window in and on the Memorial at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate, Yorkshire, The Canadian Virtual War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial The fifth of six SES sons of a Yorkshire based clergyman, born in Knaresborough 1877. By the time Trevor was killed in the war, three others of his brothers had passed on from natural causes. He was a sportsman at the School winning the Junior Headers in 1893 and a member of the Rugby Football XV the same year. He was in the Upper IVth Form On leaving School he followed several of his brothers by travelling to Canada in 1905, joining The Canadian Bank of Commerce in Toronto 1910-1914. He was married in 1907. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned with the 50th Gordon Highlanders, then the 81st Canadian Mounted Rifles before transferring to the 8th Battalion The Loyal Regiment of North Lancashire in May 1915. Badly wounded at Vimy Ridge he was hospitalised in the Viscountess Ridley’s Hospital, London in May 1916 for five months. Returning to action in April 1917 he was made Acting Colonel of the 8th Battalion, North Lancs in November 1916, after being recalled to Aldershot to prepare for a command of a Battalion. He joined the 8th Battalion North Lancashire Regiment early in 1917 and was killed in action 10th July 1917, while trying to get his men under cover.