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

O.T.C. O

FFICERS AND

-C

OMMISSIONED

FFICERS AT THE

ENERAL

NSPECTION OF

1915. A

LL SERVED IN THE WAR WITH

TEACHERS AND FORMER PUPILS FIGHTING TOGETHER

This is an important, yet sad, historical picture of some of the School’s O.T.C. notables during the Great War. Shown standing in the

back row (from the left)

L/C G.A.F. Gillmor (seriously wounded in 1918), L/C J.K.R. Walker, Corp G.B. Hett (awarded the D.F.C. 1919), Corp B.R.H. Carter (killed 1917), Corp H.E. Hudson (died

of wounds 1918), Corp A.T.E. Marsh, L/C G.H. Strange (killed 1918), L/C. A.M Bell (seriously wounded 1918).

Seated (from the left)

Sgt J.V. Boorer (wounded and suffered

shell shock 1917), Sgt R.W.M. Hall, Sec Lt V. Hope, Lt. N.W. Hammond (i/c of Corps), Sec Lt D.F. Morgan (already wounded earlier in the war and would return to France

1918), Col Sgt C.S. Ranson (killed 1917), Sgt R. Bampfield, L/C A.M. Bell (wounded 1918)