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

R ICHARD USSHER

T HE MARRIAGE IN I NDIA OF B EVERLEY U SSHER (O.S.E.) TO E THEL M ARTIN IN I NDIA 1906. S TEPHEN U SSHER (O.S.E.) STANDS IMMEDIATELY BEHIND HIS BROTHER Three Ussher brothers attended the School and all were lost during or because of the Great War. Beverley and Stephen, the two older boys, were exceptional sportsmen and scholars. The youngest brother, Richard (inset) only stayed a short while before leaving for H.M.S. ‘Britannia’ (predecessor to Dartmouth) and a Naval career. Stephen was killed near Givenchy in France in 1914, fighting with the Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis in the first action involving Colonial troops (one won a V.C.). Beverley was killed a year later in the Dardanelles serving with the Leinster Regiment, who he had joined in 1900 and had already fought with in the Boer War. Richard, after a distinguished Naval Career, when he achieved high rank and won the D.S.O., died in 1922 from Tuberculosis contracted during the war. In 1913 Beverley had returned to the School and played for the ‘Past XI’ against the School during the Jubilee celebrations and made a ‘breathtaking’ century (Warden Ferguson).