Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 45

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 BUTLER MILWAY GIVEEN (Lt)

Lef SES 1907

Arrive SES 1902

Roll Number 1120 Died 13:06:1916

Set / House A

Where MONTREALERS, BELGIUM Serving with 13, QUEBEC REGIMENT, CANADIAN ARMY

Age 28

Buried Hooge Crater Cemetery, Laper, West Flanders, Belgium Remembered The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1888 in Colerain, Northern Ireland, the younger of two sons of an army captain. Despite a lengthy spell at the School, little is known of his time at St. Edward’s. On leaving he was in then Moderns ‘A’ Form. He served in the Cavalry for two years, before leaving for Canada in 1913. When the war started he enlisted as a Lance Corporal in the 13th Royal Canadian Fusiliers (Val Cartier) in August 1914. By May 1915 he was in France with the 13th Battalion The Royal Highlanders of Canada, by then he was a Lieutenant. A year later he transferred again, this time to the 13th Battalion, Quebec Regiment, Canadian Army. He fell leading his men in a successful counter-attack near Montrealers in Belgium, when the Canadians recovered most of their lost trenches on the Ypres Salient. ‘It was a death of such as the indomitable spirit, that filled through his wiry frame would have chose’ (Chronicle).