St Edward's School Oxford and the Great War 1914-1918

C RICKET BEING PLAYED ON THE U PPER F IELDS IN 1915 Warden Sing had secured the purchase of 18 acres of land immediately across the Woodstock Road from the Duke of Marlborough’s Estate in 1910, after protracted negotiations lasting many years. The photograph shows the School’s Cricket XI playing a match in 1915, a relatively successful season when only two matches were lost out of twelve played. There was only one inter-school fixture against The City of London School (won easily), and the remainder of the opponents was a mixture of scratch teams, Oxford Colleges and Regimental teams based at the University. The average age of the side was seventeen.