Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 52

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 ERNEST CHARLES HARRIS (Capt)

Lef SES 1876

Roll Number 219 Died 21:10:1916

Arrive SES 1873

Set / House -

Where MONTAUBAN, SOMME Serving with 2/8TH, WEST RIDING REGIMENT

Age 57

Buried Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, France Remembered Sussex War Memorial, Selsey, Sussex, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1858 in Selsey, Sussex, the son of a clergyman he was the 219th boy to ever enter the School. He was in the Rugby XV of 1874 and 1875 and won the Senior Hurdles in 1876. On leaving he was the Shell Form. He travelled out to India, joining the Accounts Department of The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. While in India he married. When The Great War began he returned to England, commissioned in the Volunteer Battalion of the City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in 1914. He quickly rose to the rank of Major while living in Eastbourne and was put in charge of the Shoreditch Battery of the National Reserve. In January 1915 he was transferred to the regular army as a Captain with the 12th Battalion, Duke of Wellington (West Riding) Regiment and went to the Western Front with the British Expeditionary Force.. He was killed on 21st October 1916 during the Somme Offensive by bombs and was buried in a nearby cemetery. ‘He was regretted by all ranks and had the respect and confidence of his company’ (his Commanding Officer).