We Will Remember Them - WWI 100th Anniversary
01/05/2018
With the 100th anniversary of WWI ending coming up in 2018, we remember the fallen Old Bromsgrovians who were killed during the Great War.January: 1915Eustace Jotham, d. 07/01/1915At School: 1899-1901 Regiment: Sikhs Buried: Delhi Memorial and Miranshar Cemetery, North Waziristan, India Awarded Victoria Cross1918Harvey Staunton, d. 14/01/1918 aged 45 At School: 1883-1889Regiment: Royal Army Chaplain's Department Buried: Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery, Iraq Norman Curtis Hartley, d. 20/01/1918 aged 19 At School: 1911-1916 Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Buried: Neuville-Bourjonval British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France 1920Athelstan Chamberlayne, d. 14/01/1920 aged 41 Regiment: Duke of York's Own Lancers Buried: Delhi Memorial and Jandola Cemetery, India Francis Wykeham Wallace Birch, d. 23/01/1920 aged 20At School: 1914-1917 Regiment: King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles Buried: Delhi Memorial and Jandola Cemetery, India February: 1919Hugh Stuart Gibson, d. 19/02/1919 (died of wounds) aged 32At School: 1903-1905 Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment Buried: Hampstead Cemetery William Aldworth Aubertin, d. 20/02/1919 aged 38 At School: 1894-1897Regiment: Royal Welch Fusiliers Buried: Cairo War Memorial Cemetery 1920James Reginald Russell, d. Feb 1920 At School: 1908-1913Regiment: Royal West Kent Regiment Awarded DSODied of Pneumonia March: 1915Wynne Owen, d. 10/03/1915 aged 30At School: 1899-1903 Gordon Regiment: Dogras Indian Army Buried: Laventie Military Cemetery, Nord, France William John Grogan, d. 14/03/1915 aged 54At School: 1868-1871 Regiment: Royal Navy Buried: Cheltenham Cemetery Ian Montgomery Jones, d. 20/03/1915 At School: 1910-1914Regiment: Royal Fusiliers Buried: Manchester Southern Cemetery Lionel Henry Massy, d. 28/03/1915 At School: 1900-1906 Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers 1916Thomas Garrett Elkington, d. 04/03/1916 aged 23 At School: 1906-1911 GordonRegiment: Suffolk Regiment Buried: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, BelgiumReginald Harvey Chattock, d. 13/03/1916 aged 19 At School: 1908-1914 Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Buried: Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Somme, France 1917Ronald Maynard Ross, d. 04/03/1917 aged 21 At School: 1912-1914 Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Fins New British Cemetery, Somme, France 1918Norman Toynbee King, d. 22/03/1918At School: 1911-1915 Regiment: Dragoon Guards Buried: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France Arthur Green. d. 26/03/1918 aged 34 At School: 1897-1902 Regiment: Manchester Regiment Buried: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France 1920Gerald Jasper Martin, d. 01/03/1920At School: 1902-1905 Regiment: Royal Irish Regiment Buried: Gibraltar North Front Cemetery Died from injuries received in the WarApril: 1915Percy Patridge Bigwood, d. 22/04/1915At School: 1892-1897Regiment: Auckland Regiment Buried: East Mudros Military Cemetery, Greece Alan John Steuart, d. 30/04/1915 aged 25 At School: 1903-1904 Gordon Regiment: Canadian Engineers Buried: Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium1916John Garth Morgan-Owen, d. 09/04/1916At School: 1897-1902 Regiment: South Wales Borderers Buried: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq Julius Henry Beilby, d. 23/04/1916The School's DoctorRegiment: Worcestershire Yeomanry Rorbert Essex Surman, d. 23/04/1916 aged 24At School: 1906 Gordon Regiment: Worcestershire Yeomany Buried: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel Randolph Noel Churchill Murray, d. 28/04/1916 aged 21At School: 1909-1912 Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France1917Joseph Leslie Dent. d. 11/04/1917 aged 28 At School: 1904-1907Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment Buried: Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Awarded DSO and Military CrossCharles Whitley. d. 11/04/1917 aged 28 At School: 1899-1906 Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps Buried: Hibers Trench Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Awarded Military CrossWilliam Dobree Chepmell, d. 12/04/1917 aged 21 At School: 1909-1914 Gordon Regiment: Royal Sussex Buried: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, FranceWilliam Martin Musgrove, d. 15/04/1917 aged 20 At School: 1910-1914 Regiment: Border Regiment Buried: Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Frederick Herbert Mark Collier. d. 23/04/1917 aged 27 Regiment: Sherwood Foresters Buried: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, FranceGuy Lesingham Spreckley, d. 23/04/1917 aged 32 At School: 1902-1907 Gordon Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps Buried: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium Cecil Oliver Eachus Price, d. 28/04/1917 aged 24At School: 1906-1908 Regiment: Canadian Infantry Buried: Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France1918Clifford Mostyn French Dewdney. d. 04/04/1918At School: 1910-1914Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Buried: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France John Dobree Chepmell, d. 10/04/1918 aged 39At School: 1899-1907 Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Buried: Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium 1919Robert Douglas Cotton, d. 05/04/1919 (Died of wounds) aged 20 Regiment: London Regiment Buried: Bromsgrove Cemetery Awarded Military CrossThe only OB to be interred close to the SchoolMay: 1915Leopold Colman Smith, d. 16/05/1915At School: 1903-1909 Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried: Le Touret, Pas de Calais, France 1917Herbert Cecil Cutler, d. 10/05/1917 aged 26 At School: 1902-1908 Regiment: Royal Flying Corps Buried: Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France1918Victor Robert Wheelock, d. 20/05/1918 aged 19At School: 1915-1916 Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Buried: Esquelbecq Military Cemetery, Nord, FranceJune: 1915Henry D'esterre Head, d. 01/06/1915 aged 20 At School: 1910-1913Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers Buried: Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France Walter Henry Fox. d. 16/06/1915 aged 20At School: 1910-1913 Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment Buried: Le Touret, Pas de Calais, FrancePhilip Malcolm Kerwood. d. 25/06/1915At School: 1904-1909 Gordon Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France 1916Arthur Coke Thomas, d. 02/06/1916 aged 30 At School: 1902-1904Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light InfantryBuried: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium Awarded Military Medal Ernest Gordon Bennitt, d. 04/06/1916 At School: 1890Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Buried: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, FranceHenry Alfred Butt, d. 08/06/1916At School: 1877-1882Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Buried: Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, Nord, France Jack Victor Lauria, d. 18/06/1916 aged 26At School: 1906-1908 Gordon Regiment: Sherwood Foresters Buried: Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France1917Nathaniel Fuhrman Clarke, d. 01/06/1917 aged 31 Regiment: Royal Flying Corps Buried: Sutton Coldfield Cemetery Lewis Dudley Richard Huggard, d. 26/06/1917 aged 23 At School: 1904-1908Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment Buried: Albuera Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Frank Bernard Wearne, d. 28/06/1917 aged 23 At School: 1908-1912Regiment: Essex Regiment Buried: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Awarded Victoria Cross1918Basil Vassal Bruton, d. 15/06/1918 aged 39 At School: 1893-1897Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Buried: Boscon British Cemetery, Italy Frederic Dixon, d. 18/06/1918 aged 20 At School: 1913-1917 Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Rue-Des-Berceaux Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, FranceJuly: 1916William Alexander Delap Goodwin, d. 01/07/1916 aged 23 At School: 1906-1911 Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuile Wood Denzil Clive Tate Twentyman, d. 01/07/1916 aged 26 At School: 1904-1909 Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment Buried: Somme, France Awarded Military CrossPercy William Hemming, d. 03/07/1916 At School: 1897-1904Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France Richard Greaves Tasker, d. 03/07/1916 aged 27 At School: 1900-1908 GordonRegiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Ovillers Military Cemetery, Somme, FranceGeoffrey Francis Silvester, d. 17/07/1916 aged 23At School: 1905-1911 Regiment: King's Shropshire Light Infantry Buried: La Neuville British Cemetery, Somme, France1 Douglas Estill, d. 18/07/1916 At School: 1903-1905Regiment: South African Infantry Buried: Delville Wood Cemetery, Somme, France William Lawton Roberts, d. 30/07/1916 aged 22 At School: 1906-1911Regiment: Royal Welch Fusiliers Buried: Heilly Station Cemetery, Somme, France 1917Charles Arthur Green, d. 13/07/1917 aged 20 At School: 1911-1915 Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery Buried: St Martin Calvaire British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Awarded Military Cross1918Arthur Eldred Barker Sutton, d. 04/07/1918 At School: 1910-1912Regiment: Royal Air ForceAugust:1915Hewitt Huggard, d. 07/08/1915 aged 26 At School: 1908-1913Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment Buried: Helles Memorial, Turkey Spencer Robert Valentine Travers, d. 09/08/1915 aged 22At School: 1908-1913 Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers Buried: Helles Memorial, Turkey Norman Kingsley Street, d. 10/08/1915 At School: 1896-1900Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Helles Memorial, Turkey Mentioned in Dispatches1917Walter Henry Lewis, d. 04/08/1917 aged 23 At School: 1909-1913 Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France John Bromley Rawlins, d. 16/08/1917 At School: 1905-1909 Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps Buried: New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium 1918Harry Oliver Blay Newey, d. 27/08/1918 aged 22At School: 1908-1913 Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Buried: Bray Military Cemetery, Somme, FranceSeptember: 1914Ralph Lesingham Spreckley, d. 14/09/1914 aged 21 At School: 1905-1911Regiment: Connaught Rangers Buried: Vailly British Cemetery, Aisne, France Awarded Military CrossMentioned in DispatchesFirst OB to be killed1916Philip Reeves Vaughton, d. 02/09/1916At School: 1907-1910 GordonRegiment: London Regiment Buried: Niederzwehren Cemetery, Hessen, GermanyWilliam Henry Charlesworth, d. 15/09/1916At School: 1896-1899 Regiment: King's Own Buried: Delville Wood Cemetery, Somme, FranceNorman Kennedy Steuart, d. 15/09/1916 aged 25 At School: 1903-1909 Gordon Regiment: Connaught Rangers Buried: St Pierre Cemetery, Somme, FranceGeorge Stanley Charles Baker, d. 23/09/1916 aged 21 At School: 1908-1912 Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Buried: Canford Cemetery, Bristol1917Albert Edward Brazier, d. 20/09/1917 aged 28 Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium1918Leslie Wingfield Sweet-Escott, d. 25/09/1918At School: 1908-1913 Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, BelgiumOctober: 1915Wilfred Hugh Holroyd, d. 13/10/1915 aged 23 At School: 1906-1910 Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Buried: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, FranceReginald Hartley, d. 26/10/1915 aged 24 At School: 1903-1910 Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, FranceIan Vaughan Brembridge Melhuish, d. 27/10/1915 aged 23At School: 1907-1911Regiment: Prince Albert's Buried: Rue-Du-Bacquerot 13th London Graveyard, Pas de Calais, France 1916William Henry Francis Burrows Lloyd, d. 03/10/1916 aged 21At School: 1907-1912Regiment: Devonshire Regiment Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Samuel Cecil Webb, d. 03/10/1916 aged 30 At School: 1902-1903Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers Buried: Struma Military Cemetery, Greece Robert Lancelot Gibbs Hunt, d. 07/10/1916 aged 21At School: 1909-1912Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried: Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Some, France Leonard Cameron Kidd, d. 12/10/1916 aged 23 At School: 1905-1910 Gordon Regiment: Royal Flying Corps Buried: Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Military Cross with BarWalter John Gerald Hoare, d. 25/10/1916 Regiment: Royal Fusiliers Buried: Courcelette British Cemetery, Somme, France Awarded DSO1917Frederick Bentley, d. 04/10/1917 aged 42 At School: 1890-1894 Regiment: The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium Henry William Pearman, d. 05/10/1917 At School: 1908-1910 Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Buried: Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France Donald Court Halsall, d. 09/10/1917 aged 19 At School: 1910-1916Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium Gerald Aubrey Pilcher, d. 26/10/1917 aged 21At School: 1909-1914 Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Buried: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium1918Stuart Leslie Keppel-Palmer, d. 03/10/1918At School: 1907-1911 Regiment: Royal Tank Corps Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Aisne, France Awarded Military CrossHarvey Gerald Carminow Carter, d. 08/10/1918 aged 22At School: 1908-1914Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Hargicourt Communal Cemetery, Aisne, FranceVernon Dockeray Johnson, d. 19/10/1918At School: 1912-1913Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Buried: Dunhallow Ads. Cemetery, Belgium Master at the School, joined Elmshurst in May 1912 and stayed until July 1913Charles Holbrook Rosling, d. 22/10/1918 At School: 1917-1918 Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Buried: Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France Attached to our OTC for instructional purposesMaurice Neville Meredith, d. 26/10/1918 aged 23At School: 1909-1913 Regiment: Duke of York's Own Lancers Buried: Beirut War Cemetery November:1917George Rupert Hailstone, d. 06/11/1917 aged 25At School: 1907-1910 Regiment: Royal Welch Fusiliers Buried: Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel Herbert Ward Milligan, d. 21/11/1917At School: 1901-1903 Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers Buried: Cambrai Memorial, Nord, France Noel Johnstone Sievers, d. 30/11/1917At School: 1904-1909Regiment: Essex Regiment Buried: Cambrai Memorial, Nord, France 1918 Douglas Stephen Corlett, d. 12/11/1918 aged 21 At School: 1910-1913 Regiment: Royal Fusiliers Buried: St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Pas de Calais, FranceDecember:1915Arthur Freer Spreckley, d. 30/12/1915 aged 27 At School: 1902-1906 Gordon Regiment: Gurkha Rifles Buried: Chatby Memorial, India 1917Herbert Arthur Dyer, d. 07/12/1917 At School: 1901-1907Regiment: Royal Flying Corps Buried: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France School Music Teacher until 1907