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L

LEWELLYN

H

URST

(O.S.E.)

One of over twenty O.S.E. who served with the

Canadian Forces during the war, eight of whom are on

the School’s Roll of Honour. Most of these former

pupils had been at the school in the early 1900s. Hurst

was an exception and was a Boer War veteran. In the

Great War he was appointed Quarter-Master for the

194th Canadian Battalion.

L

EONARD

C

ROFTS

(O.S.E.)

A senior regular soldier he was a veteran of the Boer

war with the Queen’s West Surrey Regiment then from

1901-2 he was appointed Provost Marshall in South

Africa. He served throughout the Great War in France,

was wounded badly twice and awarded the D.S.O. as

well as being Mentioned in Despatches twice. By the

end of the war he was a Lt Colonel but officiating as a

Brigadier, despite having two badly damaged hands.

S

IR

E

RIC

S

WAYNE

(O.S.E.)

One of the most senior regular soldiers in the war

from the School’s contingent. He had served in the

Burma Campaign (1885-7), the African Campaign

(1898) and in British Somaliland with the Welch

Regiment. From 1906-13 he was Governor of the

British Honduras, knighted in 1910. Aged 51 in 1914

he was appointed Inspector of Recruiting and then

Labour Commander of the Indian Army in 1918.