Roll of Honour 2023

F OREWORD (2)

S TAGE O NE ( PRE -G REAT W AR ) Matabele Wars

One OSE death One OSE death Three OSE deaths

North-West Frontier Two Boer Wars

S TAGE T WO (T HE G REAT W AR *) Number of OSE lost

One hundred and eighteen

Number of teachers lost

Three

S TAGE T HREE (W ORLD W AR T WO ) Number of OSE lost

One hundred and fifty-two

Number of teachers lost

One

S TAGE F OUR (O THER **) Number of OSE lost

Seventeen

*Included in The Great War figures are three OSE who died after the war ended, but of injuries caused by the war, **These include those lost in Service accidents between the wars, and in various smaller conflicts involving British forces after WW2.

Total ROH Two hundred and eighty-seven OSE, four teachers Details of these individuals are included in the following pages.

B ACKGROUND (1) S TAGE O NE : - U P TO AND T HE G REAT W AR

St. Edward’s School, Oxford had never been intended to be a military establishment, quite the opposite in fact. The early fathers had founded the School based on deeply religious beliefs, starting in New Inn Hall Street and then in Summertown, with the expectation that most of their charges would be ordained or would follow peaceable respectable careers based on their sincere Christian beliefs. To die in war was not such an expectation. Yet, even by the end of the New Inn Hall era there were a significant number of pupils entering the services (as high as 12%) with no less than three future eminent