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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.