Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 49

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 ARTHUR DENNIS HARDING (Lt)

Roll Number 1143 Died 30:10:1914

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1903

Lef SES 1904

Where MARNE, FRANCE Serving with 1ST, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 22

Buried Ypres Town Cemetery, Leper, West Flanders, Belgium Remembered Berkhampstead School WW1 Memorial, St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1892 in Dover, the only son of an Army Major, he was at the School only a very short time and no record remains of his time. On leaving he was in the Lower IIIrd Form. He completed the majority of his schooling at Berkhampstead School. When hostilities broke out, he was commissioned in the 1st Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment where he soon held Lieutenant rank. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders. He was killed in action very early in the war during the battle of the Marne, dying of his wounds on 30th October 1914. He was buried at Ypres Town Cemetery, West Flanders, Belgium.