Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 48

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 FREDERICK ROBERT CYPRIAN HAMMOND (Se L)

Lef SES 1910

Set / House A

Roll Number 1246 Died 05:07:1915

Arrive SES 1906

Where ABEELE, YPRES Serving with 2ND ROYAL FUSILIERS

Age 22

Buried Lujssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium Remembered

Christ Church, Oxford Roll of Honour, Roll of Honour: Offices of the Royal Fusiliers WW1, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1893 in Brockley, Kent the only son of a clergyman, who entered SES on a Scholarship. He was a School Prefect and a member of the Cricket XI 1910 and Rugby Football XV 1909. He was in the VIth Form on leaving. In the years between leaving school and The Great War he was both a teacher and an actor. With the outbreak of the war, he was commissioned in the 2nd Battalion, City of London (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment in February 1915. His war was to be a short one as five months later he was badly wounded in Flanders ‘while attending to some wire entanglements in front of the trenches, going himself rather than asking anyone else to go. He was shot and badly wounded’ (Chronicle). Taken to an Emergency Hospital in Abeele, six miles from Ypres, he lingered until the following day before succumbing to his wounds. One of his men wrote ‘His zeal, fearlessness and universal kindness and unselfishness never faltered’ (Chronicle). He is remembered on the Christ Church Oxford Roll of Honour, despite never going there - perhaps he was destined to go and that was recognised.