Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 66

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 AUBREY NOEL CAREW HUNT (Capt)

Lef SES 1911

Roll Number 1224 Died 06:06:1916

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1906

Where FRANCE Serving with OXON AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY

Age 24

Buried Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont St. Eloi, France Remembered Merton College Roll of Honour, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Clapham, London in 1892, the elder of two SES brothers, both of whom were killed in The Great War, sons of Reverend Robert Carew Hunt, Hon Canon, Christ Church, Oxford (OSE). He had an illustrious School career, a School Prefect, a member of the Rugby Football XV 1909 and 1910, Rowing IV and VIII 1910 and 1911, a sub editor of the ‘Chronicle’, a Sacristan and in the VIth Form. He went up to Merton College, Oxford as an Exhibitioner in October 1911 on a History Exhibition, taking a 2nd class Degree in Modern History. While at the university he rowed for his College VIII and was President of the Stubbs Society. At the outbreak of war, he was commissioned in Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Special Reserve) and by August 1915 was a Lieutenant on the Western Front in the 2nd Battalion. During the Battle of Loos in September, he was badly wounded in three places and returned to a Dublin Hospital for surgery, later convalescing at Albury until February 1916, when he rejoined his regiment at Portsmouth. Again promoted, to Captain, and on his first night back in the trenches in June, he was mortally wounded, while overseeing the erection of some wire netting. He died within a few minutes. ‘He was the first of our second generation to fall on the field of honour’ (Chronicle). ‘He had great charm and wit and was in every way a fine character. To all who knew him, it was clear that he would do well, he could not have done better’ (Oxford News).