Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 54

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 ROLAND THORSTEN HETT (Lt)

Lef SES 1914

Roll Number 1376 Died 26:10:1916

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1911

At BATTLE OF THE SOMME Serving with 2ND, LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 20

Buried Buried where he fell, Picardie, France Remembered

Thiepval Memorial, Northern France The Brigg War Memorial, Lincolnshire The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1896 in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the youngest of two SES brothers. He had a distinguished time at the School - A School Prefect, a member of the School Cricket XI 1913 and 1914. (wicket-keeper) and the 2nd Rugby Football XV in 1913. He was a Sergeant in the OTC and in the VIth Form. Still at the school when the war broke out, he enlisted at once in the Army Service Corps at Deptford and passed out at Le Havre. In hospital with blood poisoning in April 1916. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment September 1916. Transferred to a regular Battalion, he left for France in time to take part in the Somme Offensive of July 1916. During the offensive he was wounded in the leg in action 26th October 1916 and was given morphia and had his wounds dressed at an Advanced Dressing Station. While being carried back to hospital a stray shell burst nearby killing Hett and two of his stretcher bearers and wounding a third. He was buried where he fell.