Memorial Details
Memorial
4th Draft Roll of Honour 1914-18 December 1915 Bede Collegiate School
Reference
S140.181d
Place
SUNDERLAND
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Fourth draft Roll of Honour, printed in the School magazine. Copies were later bound into two hard-backed volumes.
The name is followed by a figure which denotes the year in which the pupil left the school
There follow analyses of those who joined which sphere of service and their ranks; also the countries where they served.
The names of masters from the school are added at the end, as they were not former pupils.
The name is followed by a figure which denotes the year in which the pupil left the school
There follow analyses of those who joined which sphere of service and their ranks; also the countries where they served.
The names of masters from the school are added at the end, as they were not former pupils.
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Sunderland Bede Collegiate School
Fourth draft, Rough and Incomplete, made December 15th, 1915, / of an / Old Bedans' Roll of Honour ./ in the Final Form of which Roll it is hoped to place / the Names of all Old Boys of Bede School (1890-1914) / who were in any Branch of His Majesty's Military or Naval Forces / during the Great War which began in 1914.
Fourth draft, Rough and Incomplete, made December 15th, 1915, / of an / Old Bedans' Roll of Honour ./ in the Final Form of which Roll it is hoped to place / the Names of all Old Boys of Bede School (1890-1914) / who were in any Branch of His Majesty's Military or Naval Forces / during the Great War which began in 1914.
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Sunderland Bede Collegiate School
Notes
1. This Roll was the fourth draft to try and ascertain all the names of former pupils who had served. Advertising had been placed in various newspapers and publications. The results contained either very full descriptions or scanty ones. The final result would be published.
2. The school was about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The war had shortened the length of stay for some pupils to two years, others had attended for four years.
3. There were ten of these draft lists published. They obviously get longer with each version. The information for some people is repeated in later versions. The result can be a bit confusing, so an Index has been prepared for researchers to be able to see the names. See link below.
2. The school was about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The war had shortened the length of stay for some pupils to two years, others had attended for four years.
3. There were ten of these draft lists published. They obviously get longer with each version. The information for some people is repeated in later versions. The result can be a bit confusing, so an Index has been prepared for researchers to be able to see the names. See link below.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: James Pasby
The Bedan No. 39 Dec. 1915. Pages 613-625
The Bedan No. 39 Dec. 1915. Pages 613-625
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Research acknowledgements
Brenda McMahon; Dorothy Hall; Una McKellar
Research In Progress
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4th Draft Roll of Honour 1914-18 December 1915 Bede Collegiate School (S140.181d)
No.39. December, 1915. THE BEDAN. Page 613
Sunderland Bede Collegiate Boys' School.
FOURTH DRAFT, somewhat Rough and Incomplete, Made December 15th, 1915,
OF AN
OLD BEDANS' ROLL OF HONOUR,
In the FINAL FORM of which Roll it is hoped to place
the Names of all OLD BOYS of BEDE SCHOOL (1890-1915)
who were in any Branch of His Majesty's Military or Naval Forces
during the GREAT WAR which began in 1914.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
A. An attempt has been made-partly by advertising in The Times, Sunderland
Daily Echo, Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Newcastle Evening Chronicle,
Newcastle Daily Journal, North Mail, and Evening Mail, partly by personal
inquiries directed to Boys, Old Boys, Parents, and various other people-to
procure information as to the (1) Name,(2)Rank, (3) Regiment, Ship, or other
section of the Army or Navy, and (4) Present Station of EVERY OLD BOY now on
military or naval service.
Also, information has been sought with regard to EVERY OLD BOY who, while
serving in the War, has (1) Fallen, or (2) Become one of the Missing, or (3)
Been Wounded, or (4) Been Taken Prisoner, or (5) Gained Special Distinction.
The particulars obtained have been in some cases full and exact, in others,
copious but obscure or contradictory, in others, again, extremely scanty-
perhaps a name, and nothing more. And there is good reason for believing
that there are dozens of Old Bedan soldiers and sailors whose bare names,
even, have not been supplied.
B. The Roll here given is based upon the materials at present available. It is
obviously incomplete, and is perhaps incorrect in several places. But,
having been compiled with some amount of care in an honest endeavour to
represent the facts as far as they are known, it is more likely to be
unsatisfactory on account of omissions than by reason of important mistakes.
The Roll at present contains the Names of 440 Old Bedans (including several
who left School to enlist), of whom 407 are in the Army and 33 in the Navy.
An Analysis based on RANK gives the following figures:
a. ARMY: 107 Officers (1 Major, 11 Captains, 23 Lieutenants,
72 Second-Lieutenants).
86 Non-Commissioned Officers (1 Sergeant-Major, 1 Sergeant-Major
Instructor, 2 Staff -Sergeants, 6 Quartermaster Sergeants,
24 Sergeants, 24 Corporals, 20 Lance-Corporals, 8 Bombardiers).
199 Men, (150 Privates, 19 Gunners, 8 Drivers, 13 Troopers, 8 Sappers,
1 Trumpeter).
15 Cadets, Officers' Training Corps.
b. NAVY: 20 Officers (5 Lieutenants, 1 Naval Instructor, 2 Engineer -
Lieutenants, 1 Navigating Officer, 5 Sub-Lieutenants, 3 Engineer
Sub-Lieutenants, 1 Gunnery Sub-Lieutenant, 1 Engineer, 1 Second-
Engineer).
13 Men (7 Engine-Room Artificers, 1 Wireless Operator, 2 Writers,
1 Able Seaman, 1 Man in Armourer's Crew, 1 Cook's Mate).
(At the foot of the Roll appear the Names of 5 of the Masters at Bede School
who are in the Army. Not being Old Boys of the School, they are not included
in the foregoing Analysis.
Also, the Names of 5 Masters and of the Clerk at Bede School, who have been
Attested under Lord Derby's Scheme, are shown at the foot of the Roll.
The School has hardly any information of Old Boys who have been Attested.
The number of these is doubtless very large. Conceivably the question of a
List of Attested Old Bedans may be considered later, but, for the present
at any rate, the Roll of Honour will be constituted solely on the lines
hitherto followed-that is, there will be put into it only the
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names of Old Boys actually serving in the Army or the Navy or embodied in an
Officers' Training Corps.)
Another Analysis of the 440 Old Bedan Soldiers and Sailors in the Roll gives
their PLACE of STATION as follows: -
British Isles, 258, British Overseas Dominions (chiefly India and Egypt),
16, At Sea, 29, Dardanelles, Salonica and Mesopotamia, 33, France and
Flanders, 104.
A Third Analysis of the Roll indicates the following facts with regard to
Old Boys: -
Killed in Action, 14, Missing (for seven months), 2, Wounded or Gassed, 28,
Prisoners in Germany, 3 (one Wounded), Invalided, 2, Wrecked, but saved, 1,
Mentioned in Despatches, 1, Made a member of the Legion of Honour, 1.
C. The figures placed after each Old Boy's Name in the Roll show the year of
his leaving the School.
D. The Roll will be augmented and amended from time to time as additional
information is received, and will be published afresh in each Number of The
Bedan which appears during the War. My colleague, Mr T.H. Blyth, is
assisting me to compile the Roll. and, with a view to making it as
comprehensive, as up-to-date and as well-arranged as possible, we shall at
all times be glad to receive particulars or suggestions from any quarter.
Enlistments, promotions, changes in place of station and the addition or the
alteration of other items, daily combine to render the Roll somewhat
kaleidoscopic: it varies in appearance almost incessantly, and is always
attractive. To record each new piece of information is to us a labour of
love: all that we ask is that anybody who notices anything erroneous or
out-of-date in the Roll, or anything omitted which ought certainly to
appear, will kindly write to us about the matter.
The whole SCHOOL is most grateful to Old Boys who have supported, or who are
now supporting in arms the cause of King and Country, and also to their
parents and friends. We are wishful and eager, as has already been
indicated, to have a full list of those Old Boys' names. We shall watch, with pride, interest, sympathy and affection, the careers of all Old Bedans taking part in the War; and we shall ever remember with special gratitude
the men who fall. We may hope that, by making the supreme sacrifice, they
may gain an even better reward, than grateful remembrance.
“Whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it”; and an Old Bedan who dies
in battle for the right may perhaps realise the full significance of his
school motto Post Tenebras Lux: After Darkness, Light.
G.T. FERGUSON, Headmaster.
KILLED IN ACTION. (14)
(“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
Horace, Carmina.
“Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail,
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame, - nothing but WELL and FAIR,
And what may QUIET us, in a death so noble.”
Milton, Samson Agonistes.)
BUBB, Lance Corporal Thomas Barry Lawson.
7th City of London Battalion, London Regiment, British Expeditionary
Force. June 16th, 1915.
DOBSON, Private William Graham.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Flanders,
May 25th, 1915.
HASWELL, Lieutenant Frederick.
2nd East Yorkshire Regiment, British Expeditionary Force.
April 25th, 1915.
HOGG, Private Robert.
8th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Flanders,
April 26th, 1915.
JACKSON, Private Israel.
7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
May 15th, 1915.
LEACH, Corporal Richard H.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Flanders,
Whit Monday May 24th, 1915.
MICKELS, Writer Thomas Edward.
H.M.S. “Hawke”. October 15th, 1914.
MONRO, Private Duncan.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Dardanelles.
May 24th, 1915.
NESBITT, Sergeant Thomas Hudson.
5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Dardanelles. April 26th, 1915.
PETERSON, Private Harold.
4th Yorks. (Prince of Wales's Own), British Expeditionary Force.
May 1st, 1915.
POTTS, Able Seaman Thomas Fairhead.
H.M.S. “Bayano.” March 11th, 1915.
STAFFORD, Private Robert.
8th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, France or
Flanders. Between April 28th and June 26th, 1915.
TILLEY, Corporal Arthur Boston.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, France. June 15th, 1915.
TODD, Private Charles Adolphus.
7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
May 31st, 1915.
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MISSING. (2)
Brown, Private William, S.S.C.
Machine Gun Section, 7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Since May 24th, 1915.
Pattison, Private Charles L.
7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
Since May 24th, 1915.
*WOUNDED OR “GASSED”. (27)
(This list is very incomplete.)
Allison, Corporal Edwin.
7th Royal Sussex, British Expeditionary Force, near Loos. Right leg
amputated, October 1915, in Nottingham General Hospital.
Armstrong, Private H. Oswald.
Civil Service Rifles, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded
slightly; Gassed slightly, twice.
Canney, Second-Lieutenant Ernest E.
10th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Wounded December
15th, 1915. In hospital at Boulogne.
Chisholm, Lieutenant Robert Oswald.
Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Velox”. Had both legs broken when his ship
was mined. In Haslar Hospital.
Cook, Private Wayman.
13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Dardanelles. Right arm
amputated, May 2nd, 1915.
Coupland, Private George.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded
and gassed.
Dale, Lance-Corporal Theophilus A.
Royal Engineers, 91st Field Company, British Expeditionary Force. Wounded
at Loos, September 26th, 1915.
Ellis, Private James West.
8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
Gassed, May, 1915.
Fowler, Private George Edwin.
15th London Regiment, Civil Service Corps, British Expeditionary Force,
France. Wounded twice.
Foulkes, Lieutenant George Boyd, M.A. (Edin.).
6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded,
September, 1915.
Hardy, Sergeant George R.
10th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, France.
Wounded, April 28th, 1915.
Hart, Private George M.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Wounded, May,
1915. Prisoner in Germany.
Hodson, Private George P.
7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
Wounded, May 23rd, 1915.
Hogg, Lieutenant Frederick S.
Royal Field Artillery, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded,
September 30th, 1915.
Jacoby, Private Harry.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded
and gassed, July, 1915.
Jordan, Lieutenant Harold G., B.Sc. (Durham).
10th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Wounded near
Loos, September 26th, 1915.
Liebrecht, Second-Lieutenant William H.
7th Durham Light Infantry, France. Wounded, May, 1915.
Mackay, Corporal Malcolm J.
19th Yorks. Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded,
October 21st, 1915.
Moffitt, Sapper Robert.
Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers, British Expeditionary Force, France.
Wounded.
Morgan, Private Stanley Barnsdale.
5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force, France.
Wounded, May 24th, 1915.
Pollock, Second-Lieutenant Charles W., B.A. (Durham).
2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, British Expeditionary Force. Shot
through chest, July 6th, 1915.
Reed, Lance-Corporal Stanley Spencer.
17th Lancers (“Death or Glory” Boys), British Expeditionary Force.
Wounded and frost bitten, February, 1915.
Robson, Second-Lieutenant Robert Kirkley, B.A. (Durham).
2nd Durham Light Infantry. Skull fractured at Hooge, August 9th, 1915.
Sands, Lance-Corporal George T.
7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Wounded, May 24th, 1915. Now Second-Lieutenant, 8th Wilts.
Sladden, Second-Lieutenant Harry E., B.A. (Durham).
4th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, British
Expeditionary Force. Skull fractured, April, 1915.
Wigzell, Private Richard.
12th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force, Cairo. Wounded,
April 30th, 1915.
Wilson, Sergeant Percy.
15th Durham Light Infantry. Thigh bone fractured near Loos, September
26th, 1915. In 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester.
Wilson, Lance-Corporal Roy.
21st Royal Fusiliers, British Expeditionary Force, France. Wounded in
right arm, December 4th, 1915. In St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
PRISONERS IN GERMANY. (3)
Carter, Private William K.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Flanders.
Fawcett, Private Robert.
8th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Taken at Ypres,
April 25th, 1915.
Hart, Private George Manson.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, Flanders. Wounded
and captured, May, 1915.
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INVALIDED. (2)
Bowes, Lieutenant Alfred Stanley.
7th Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force. Invalided from
Armentieres with Shell Deafness.
Bruce, Lance-Corporal Arthur Stanley.
Signal Co., Royal Naval Division, British Medical Expeditionary Force. In
hospital some time suffering from jaundice. Now recovered and in
Gallipoli again.
WRECKED, BUT SAVED. (1)
Holroyd, Wireless Operator Haviland Charlton.
Was at the Dardanelles in H.M.S. “Ocean” when she went down.
Now at Malta.
++ MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES. (1)
Mitchell, Lieutenant William McGregor.
Army Veterinary Corps, 1st Guards Brigade, British Expeditionary Force.
Mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch, June 23rd, 1915.
DECORATED. (1)
Craven, Captain Joseph Wilfrid, M.B. (Durham).
1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, British
Expeditionary Force, France. Made a Member of the Legion of Honour.
GENERAL ROLL (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER).
Abrahams, Mark, '07.
Private, 19th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Morpeth.
Aitchison, George L., '12.
Lance-Corporal, 2/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, B.M.E.F. Invalided
from Gallipoli, with enteric fever. In hospital, Manchester.
Alder, Percy, '10.
Driver, Army Service Corps, Doncaster.
* Allison, Edwin, '02.
Corporal, 7th Royal Sussex Regiment, B.E.F. Wounded (right leg amputated)
near Loos, October 1915. In Nottingham General Hospital.
Allison, George Frederick, '95.
Corporal, Machine Gun Section, 18th (S) Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Allison, Robert Stafford, '07.
Lance-Corporal, B Squadron, 1st Division, Northumberland Fusiliers,
B.E.F.
Ambler, Edward, '13.
Private, 19th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Masham, Yorkshire.
Anderson, George, '06.
Engineer Sub-Lieutenant, H.M.S. “Marlborough”, 1st Battle Squadron.
Armstrong, Gilbert G., B.A. (Durham), '10.
Sub-Lieutenant, 12th (S) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Ashford,
Middlesex.
Armstrong, H. Oswald, '11.
Private, Civil Service Rifles, B.E.F., France. Wounded slightly; gassed
slightly, twice.
Asher, Sydney, '12.
Private, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Atkins, Frederick M., '09.
Private, 3rd Battalion, Scots Guards, Wellington Barracks.
Atkins, Osborne, '11.
Trooper, Hampshire Carabineers.
Atkins, Percy, '06.
Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Ramsay”.
Atlay, Thomas A., '01.
Quartermaster-Sergeant, 7th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
B.E.F.
Auld, Robertson, '08.
Trooper, Leicestershire Yeomanry, B.E.F.
Ayers, Arthur Fletcher, '14.
Private, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Barclay, Frank O., '12.
Gunner, Wearside Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, Tidworth, Hants.
Barker, Charles F., '93.
Farrier-Sergeant, 116th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, B.E.F.
Barlow, George, B.Sc. (Durham), '03.
Engineer-Lieutenant, H.M.S. “Natal”.
Barron, Arthur, '10.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich.
Baty, Robert Wilson, '05.
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.Y. “Amalthia”.
Beal, William Ernest, '11.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Hull.
Beardall, Wilfrid, '09.
Second-Lieutenant, 22nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, (3rd
Tyneside Scottish).
Beattie, Stewart Nugent, '13.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd South Staffordshires, Earsdon.
Bell, Arthur Osborne, '12.
Private, 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Ripon.
Bell, David Ernest, '02.
Trooper, Maxim Gun Section, Queen's Own Yorks. Dragoons, Bridlington.
Bell, George, '15.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, East Boldon.
Bell, Howard, '09.
Second-Lieutenant, Indian Army Officers' Reserve.
Benson, Charles G., '08.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, (Heavy Battery), Sunderland.
Bernstein, Lionel, '13.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, B.E.F.
Blakeman, Thomas H., '99.
Staff-Sergeant, Army Service Corps, B.E.F.
Blakey, Richard P., '94.
Lieutenant, 19th Battalion, Alberta Dragoons, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Blenkinsop, John H., '97.
Quartermaster-Sergeant, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Boggon, Henry Hopper, '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 15th Northumberland Fusiliers, Penkridge, Stafford.
Boustead, Edward Pawson, '12.
Private, Northumbrian Cyclist Corps, Tynemouth.
Bowes, Alfred Stanley, '09.
Lieutenant, 7th Durham Light Infantry. Invalided from Armentieres with
shell deafness.
Bray, Ernest C.W., '08.
Corporal, Royal Engineers, Motor Cycle Dispatch Rider, Aldershot.
Brierley, Harold H., B.Sc. (Durham), '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 12th Northumberland Fusiliers, Tring, Hertfordshire.
Brough, George T.C., '12.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Browell, Charles William, '08.
Corporal, Durham Royal Engineers, Jarrow.
Brown, Joseph, '09.
Corporal, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Sunderland.
Brown, Percy Haswell, '03.
Private, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex.
Brown, Robert, '97.
Corporal, 5th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, B.E.F.
Brown, Vernon, B.Sc. (Durham), '10.
Corporal, Northern Cyclists Battalion, Saltfleet.
Brown, William, '96.
Private, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.
+ Brown, William, S.S.C., '01.
Private, Machine Gun Section, 7th Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force. Missing since May 24th, 1915.
Brown, William Cuthbert, S.S.C., '99.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light infantry, Barnard Castle; formerly
Sergeant, Honourable Artillery Company, British Expeditionary Force.
Bruce, Arthur Stanley, '04.
Lance-Corporal, Signal Company, Royal Naval Division, B.M.E.F. Invalided
from Dardanelles; recovered, and at Dardanelles again.
Brydon, Robert, '10.
Private, 19th Yorkshire Regiment, Folkestone.
**BUBB, THOMAS BARRY LAWSON, '09.
Lance-Corporal, 7th City of London Battalion, London Regiment,
British Expeditionary Force. Killed in Action, June 16th, 1915.
Bundred, James W., '00.
Navigating Officer, H.M.A.S. “Aorangi.”
Burnham, Bennett, '08.
Private, New Zealand Contingent, B.M.E.F., Alexandria.
Burnham, Norman Oliver, '06.
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. "Defiance".
Burnham, Roger, '07.
Private, New Zealand Contingent, B.M.E.F., Alexandria.
Butterfield, John Wilson, '05.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle; formerly
Private, 19th Northumberland Fusiliers, Salisbury Plain.
Byers, Alexander William, '96.
Corporal, Royal Engineers, Tyne Garrison, Cleadon.
Byers, Arthur Kenneth, '09.
Corporal, Royal Engineers, Motor Cycle Dispatch Rider, Aldershot.
Cairns, Herbert, B.A. (Oxon.), '10.
Private, Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps (Artillery),
Berkhamstead.
Cairns, John Alexander, '12.
Private, Northumbrian Divisional Cycling Co., Whickham.
Cairns, Thomas, '12.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich.
Cameron, Allan Gordon, '05.
Second-Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, East Riding, Immingham.
Cameron, Ernest, '94.
Captain, 19th Durham Light Infantry, Perham Downs, Salisbury Plain.
Cameron, Percy B., '01.
Lieutenant, 146th (Durham), Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich.
Campbell, W.E.H., '11.
Second-Lieutenant, West Riding, Royal Field Artillery.
Candlish, Leslie S., '12.
Driver, 2/3rd Northumberland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Low Fell.
Candlish, William C., '11.
Driver, 2/3rd Northumberland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Low Fell.
* Canney, Ernest E., '13.
Second-Lieutenant, 10th Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F., France. Wounded,
December 15, 1915.
Canney, Joseph R., '11.
Private, 14th County of London Battalion, London Scottish, B.E.F. Now in
London, Inns of Court. Officers' Training Corps.
Carr, John F., '10.
Private, Machine Gunner, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Carter, Frank, '02.
Private, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force.
Carter, Joseph, '12.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, British Expeditionary Force.
Carter, Victor, '12.
Private, 7th (Reserves) Durham Light Infantry, Sunderland.
Carter, William K., '06.
Private, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F. A prisoner in
Germany.
Cartledge, James, '13.
Private, K. Company, Royal Army Medical Corps, Aldershot.
Cawthorne, William James, '01.
Corporal, Army Service Corps, B.M.E.F., Salonika.
Chick, Harry Thomas, '04.
Second-Lieutenant, 30th Northumberland Fusiliers, (Local Reserve),
formerly Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Heavy Battery.
Chisholm, George William, '06.
Lieutenant, H.M. Patrol Boat “Enterprise”. Recently in Red Sea.
* Chisholm, Robert Oswald, '02.
Lieutenant, (Royal Naval Reserve), H.M.S. “Velox”. Had both legs broken
when his ship (a destroyer) was mined. In Haslar Hospital.
Chrishop, William Ernest, '09.
Gunner, Anti-aircraft Section, Shoeburyness.
Coates, Wilfrid Brian, '13.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.
* Cook, Wayman, '03.
Private, 13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Dardanelles. Wounded,
arm amputated, May 2nd, 1915.
Cooper, Robert Ernest, '99.
Private, 32nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Shorncliffe.
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Cory, Sydney S. '06.
Corporal, Northumberland Hussars, Scarborough; formerly British
Expeditionary Force.
Cottam, Hubert F., '12.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Coulson, Alfred, '95.
Private, 9th Durham Light Infantry, Dunston.
* Coupland, George, '95.
Private, 7th (Service), Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Wounded and gassed.
Cowell, Arthur W., '01.
Private, 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, Egypt.
Cowey, Foster, '08.
Private, Royal Naval Division, Royal Army Medical Corps, Blandford,
Dorset.
Craven, Joseph Wilfrid, M.B., (Durham), '05.
Captain, 1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps,
B.E.F. Made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, November 6, 1915.
Particulars later.
Crawford, Reginald Dixie, B.A. (Durham), '09.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/7th Northumberland Fusiliers, Alnwick.
* Dale, Theophilus A., '09.
Lance-Corporal, Royal Engineers, 91st Field Company, B.E.F. Wounded at
Loos, September 26th, 1915.
Davidson, Arthur S., '99.
Private, 21st (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Ashtead, Surrey.
Davison, William, '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 2nd Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force.
Davison, Fred, '02.
Private, 192nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Norwich.
Davison, William Storey, '11.
Private, Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
Dickeson, Arthur, '13.
Private, 23rd Provisional Battalion, Atwick, Hull.
Dixon, Harold, N., '06.
Sergeant, 8th Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F., France.
Dixon, James Edward, '09.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Dobson, G.D.R., '97.
Second-Lieutenant, (formerly Private), 7th (Service) Durham Light
Infantry, British Expeditionary Force.
Dobson, Harrison, '99.
Private, 18th (Service), Durham Light Infantry, Salisbury.
Dobson, William Allison, '11.
Private, 9th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Quayside Company,
B.E.F., France.
** DOBSON, WILLIAM GRAHAM, '08.
Private, 7th (Service), Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Killed in action, May 25, 1915.
Dodd, William D., '92.
Bombardier, 3rd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian
Expeditionary Force, France.
Donovan, Fred, '01.
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Fiona.”
Douglas, Robert M., '06.
Private, British East African Pioneers Field Telegraph Force, British
East Africa.
Dowley, Charles, '07.
Sergeant, Army Service Corps, Bradford.
Downes, George Walker, '08.
Sapper, Royal Engineers, Salisbury Plain.
Downs, Herbert, '03.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, B.E.F., France.
Dunning, Alfred, '07.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Prince of Wales”, 5th Battle Squadron.
Dunning, George C., '02.
Engine Room Artificer, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Watchful”.
Durrant, Arthur Swaby, '12.
Corporal, 18th Durham Light Infantry, Catterick.
Edmundson, George E., '10.
Private, Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport, British Expeditionary
Force.
Edward, James S., '09.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, British Expeditionary Force.
Edward, Osmond, '12.
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, 92nd Ammunition Column, B.E.F.
Eggleston, Alexander, '12.
Lance-Corporal, 7th Durham Light Infantry, Benton.
* Ellis, James West, '08.
Private, 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. “Gassed”, May, 1915. Now at Railway Office, Boulogne.
Ellis, Robert S., '15.
Private, Motor Transport Section, B.E.F., France.
Etherington, George Lord, '09.
Trooper, Australian Light Horse.
Fairclough, Robert L., '05.
Lance-Corporal, 129th Field Company, Royal Engineers, B.E.F.
Fairclough, Stewart M., '00.
Private, New Zealand Contingent, B.M.E.F.
Fairclough, Wilfrid M.B., B.S. (Durham), '96.
Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, Field Ambulance, Gallipoli.
Fawcett, Reginald, '04.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.
Fawcett, Robert, '10.
Private, 8th Durham Light Infantry, Prisoner in Germany: taken at Battle
of Ypres, April 25th, 1915.
Fearon, Charles Alfred, '09.
Driver, Northumberland Divisional Train, Army Service Corps, Gateshead.
Ferens, Leslie H., '09.
Private, Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
Ferguson, Andrew J., '14.
Second-Lieutenant, 13th Highland Light Infantry, attached to 2/6th
Lancashire Fusiliers, Culversdon Castle, Tunbridge Wells.
Findlay, Frank, '11.
Sapper, Royal Engineers, 12th Signalling Co., B.E.F., France.
Finney, Norman G.E., '07.
Quartermaster-Sergeant, 7th (Reserve) Durham Light Infantry, Sunderland.
Finney, Victor Harold, '15.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Forster, Harry, '06.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, Headquarters Staff, 7th Division,
British Expeditionary Force.
Forster, William Atkinson, '11.
Private, Army Service Corps, Wensley.
Foulkes, George Boyd, M.A. (Edin.), '09.
Lieutenant, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, B.E.F. Wounded about September,
1915.
Foulkes, James, '09.
Private, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Fowler, George Edwin, '97.
Private, 15th London Regiment, Civil Service Corps, B.E.F. Wounded
twice.
Fowler, William Peel, '97.
Engineer Sub-Lieutenant, H.M.S. “Hibernia.”
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Gaines, Christopher, '01.
Private, Comrades' Battalion, 19th Durham Light Infantry, Hartlepool.
Gill, Frederick John, '12.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, Stocksfield on Tyne.
Goldsbrough, Harry, '00.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Goldsbrough, Wilfrid, '06.
Private, 15th West Yorks. Regiment, (Leeds Pals' Battalion), Ripon.
Goodrick, Walter R., '08.
Second-Lieutenant, 7th (Service), Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Graham, James H., '01.
Quartermaster-Sergeant, Northumbrian Divisional Train, Army Service
Corps, Newcastle.
Grayston, Edward T., '01.
Sub-Lieutenant, Transport Officer, Royal Navy, Invergordon.
Grayston, John W., M.A. (Edin.), '03.
Lieutenant, 5th Division, Royal Garrison Artillery,
British Expeditionary Force.
Gunn, Ronald W. Craig, '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/6th Durham Light Infantry, Morpeth.
Haddock, William, '14.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Hall, Albert A., B.A. (Durham), '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Hall, Rowley, '09.
Lance-Corporal, 17th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Hands, Cecil, '15.
Private, County Battalion, 18th (Service), Durham Light Infantry,
B.M.E.F.
* Hardy, George R., '07.
Sergeant, 10th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
France. Wounded, April 28th, 1915.
Harrison, George Stephen, '15.
Sergeant, Wearside Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Tidworth, Hants.
Harrison, John George, '03.
Captain, 21st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Alnwick.
Harrison, Percy, '03.
Bombardier, Royal Garrison Artillery.
* Hart, George M. '09.
Private, 7th (Service), Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F. Wounded, May, 1915.
A Prisoner in Germany.
** HASWELL, FREDERIC, '11.
Lieutenant, 2nd East Yorks. Regiment, B.E.F. Killed in Action,
April 25, 1915.
Haswell, Gordon, B.A. (Durham), '10.
Captain, 9th Kings' Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Hately, William, '04.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Havelock”, Mediterranean Fleet.
Haward, John, '03.
Sapper, Royal Engineers, Seaford.
Hay, Norman, '10.
Private, Border Regiment, Seaford.
Hay, William H., '10.
Private, Army Cycle Corps, Army Service Corps, Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force.
Helm, George Mewse, '10.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, H.M. Hospital Ship “Devanha”, B.M.E.F.
Henry, Stanley, B.A. (London), A.K.C., '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 11th Reserve Battalion, Y. and L. Regiment,
Scarborough.
Herring, James M., B.A. (Durham), '11.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Hetherington, Thomas, '03.
Engineer Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Motagua”.
Hetherington, Thomas W., B.A. (Cambridge), '11.
Lieutenant, 12th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Hewitt, William Hy., '10.
Private, Motor Transport, Army Service Corps, Alexandria.
Heys, Harold Claughton, '05.
Private, Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
Heys, William Thompson, '11.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Hindmarch, Harold, '15.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Heavy Battery, Sunderland.
Hipwood, Richard W., '12.
Lance-Corporal, 21st Battalion, Welsh Regiment, Kinmel Park, St. Asaph.
Hodge, Tom S., '00.
Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Vulcan”, Leith.
Hodgson, Bryan, '03.
Engineer-Lieutenant, Royal Navy, H.M.S. “Britannia”.
* Hodson, George P., '10.
Private, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Wounded, May 23rd, 1915.
* Hogg, Fred S., '07.
Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, B.E.F. Wounded, September 30th, 1915.
** HOGG, ROBERT, '11.
Private, 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Killed in Action. April 26th, 1915.
Holmes, Newby, '07.
Private, 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Holroyd, Haviland Charlton, '11.
Wireless Operator, wrecked in H.M.S. “Ocean”. Now at Malta.
Hope, Ernest S., '02.
Sergeant, 16th Service Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, B.E.F.,
France.
Horan, James Knox, '12.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Co. Donegal.
Horton, John William, '13.
Writer, H.M.S. “Tyne”. At sea.
Hounam, George L., '13.
Lance-Corporal, Northumbrian Divisional Train, Army Service Corps,
Richmond.
Howe, William Wigham, '06.
Private, 11th Royal Warwickshire (Commercial) Regiment, Sutton Coldfield.
Hudson, Stephen L., '08.
Private, 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Hudson, William A., '12.
Sergeant, Army Veterinary Corps, Bridge of Allan, Stirling.
Hugall, George Archibald, '05.
Private, Royal Garrison Artillery, Heavy Battery, Cleadon.
Hugill, John, '05.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Tidworth, Hants.
Hunnam, William, '02.
Private, 18th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Hunter, Reginald, '11.
Cadet Officers' Training Corps, Durham University, Newcastle.
Hutchinson, Joseph A., '11.
Private, 33rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Hillsborough,
Sheffield.
Ibbitson, William B., '09.
Second-Lieutenant, 14th West Yorks., Lichfield.
Iliff, Eric, '11.
Lance-Corporal, 2/7th Durham Light Infantry, Warmworth Hall, Doncaster.
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** JACKSON, ISRAEL, '09.
Private, 7th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force. Killed in Action, May 15th, 1915.
Jacobs, Cyril, '00.
Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps.
* Jacoby, Harry, '01.
Private, 7th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F. Wounded
and gassed, July, 1915.
Johnson, John Wright, '08.
Corporal, Army Service Corps, Alnwick. Killed in Railway Accident, near
Tyne Dock, December 17th, 1915.
Johnson, William Wilson, '14.
Driver, 2/3rd Northumbrian Royal Field Artillery, Low Fell.
Johnston, George, '09.
Sergeant, Royal Field Artillery, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Jolly, Cecil C., '00.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Jordan, Harold G., B.Sc., (Durham), '03.
Lieutenant, 10th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.,
France. Wounded near Loos, September 26th, 1915.
Joseph, Julius H., '13.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, Woolwich.
Joycey, Matthew W., '91.
Sapper, Royal Engineers, 3rd Signalling Co.,
British Expeditionary Force.
Kent, Maurice, '09.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, Gosforth.
Kieffer, Alfred C., '03.
Gunner, Wearside Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Tidworth, Hants.
Kirton, Chater Melville, '06.
Gunner, Brigade Ammunition Column, 148th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Larkhill, Salisbury Plain.
Korner, Theodore, '98.
Trooper, 30th British Columbian Horse, Vancouver City.
Laidler, Robert, '09.
Private, 6th Battalion, East Yorks. Regiment, Grantham.
Lattimer, Frederick H., '08.
Private, 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Cocken Hall, B.M.E.F.
Laycock, Joseph E., '15.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Dover.
Lawrence, Alfred, '11.
Bombardier, C Battery, 160th (Wearside) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Corton, Salisbury Plain.
Lawson, John J., '09.
Private, Motor Transport, Army Service Corps, London.
Lawther, Frederick, '08.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, Darlington.
* LEACH, RICHARD H., 03.
Corporal, 7th (Service), Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F. Killed in Action,
Whit Monday, 1915.
Leadbitter, Charles Oscar, '02.
Private, 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, Marlow, Bucks.
Lee, F. Robert M., '15.
Private, Artists' Rifles, London.
Lee, Lionel J., '02.
Sergeant, 16th Battalion, Kings' Royal Rifles, Denham, Bucks.
* Liebrecht, William H., '05.
Second-Lieutenant, (late Sergeant-Major), 7th Durham Light Infantry,
B.E.F. Wounded May, 1915.
Liley, William, '10.
Gunner, 142nd (Durham) Heavy Battery, 35th Brigade, Royal Garrison
Artillery, Charlton, Woolwich.
Lindsay, J.F.A. Homer, '10.
Private, 9th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Shorncliffe.
Lindsley, Henry W., '08.
Second-Lieutenant, 2/3rd Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Low Fell.
Linton, Thomas E., '07.
Private, 6th Royal Highlanders, (Black Watch), Dundee.
Lish, Matthew, '05.
Private, 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Alnwick.
Lish, Wilfred, '11
Private, 7th Durham Light Infantry, Atwick, near Hornsea.
Lister, Matthew, '00.
Sergeant, Signalling Company, Royal Engineers, Dardanelles.
Lister, Samuel, B.Sc. (Durham), '00.
Naval Instructor, Royal Navy, Greenwich.
Logan, William, B.A. (Oxford), '02.
Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, India.
Lumsden, Charles D., '04.
Second-Lieutenant, 11th York and Lancaster Regiment.
Lynn, Stanley, '07.
Lance-Corporal, 7th (Service) Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Macdonald, Arthur Charles de Pelton, '06.
Lieutenant, Black Watch, formerly Private, London Scottish, B.E.F.
MacDonald, Kenneth, '12.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/5th Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly Private,
Northumbrian Divisional Cycling Co.
Mackay, Malcolm J., '12.
Corporal, 19th Yorkshire Regiment, B.E.F. Wounded, October 21st, 1915.
Macnair, David, M.D. (Edin.), '03.
Captain, 25th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps,
British Expeditionary Force.
Macnair, Ian A.F., '07.
Corporal, Despatch Rider, Northumberland Hussars, Scarborough.
Macnair, James, '98.
Lieutenant, 3/3 Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Durham;
formerly Sergeant, Northumberland Hussars,
British Expeditionary Force, France (10 months).
Macnair, Thomas Dunlop, '98.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/3 Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Durham, formerly Sergeant, Northumberland Hussars,
British Expeditionary Force, France. (1 year).
Mahaffy, Thomas N., '09.
Private, 13th Battalion, 7th Yorkshire Regiment, Wareham.
Manners, Frank, '13.
Private, Farrier, Transport Section, 7th Durham Light Infantry,
Doncaster.
Matthew, Charles, '05.
Corporal, 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.
Maxfield, Thomas, '06.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, Aldershot.
McAlpine, William, '09.
Private, 95th Field Company, 7th Division, Royal Engineers, B.E.F.
McBay, William, '98.
Second-Lieutenant, Durham Light Infantry.
McCormack, Joseph F., '13.
Second-Lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters, B.M.E.F., Dardanelles.
McDonald, Hugh C., '95.
Sergeant, 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 96th Infantry
Brigade, B.E.F., France.
McEwen, James Stephen, '07.
Corporal, 8th Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, Sutton Veny, Wilts.
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McIntyre, Reginald John, '12
Second-Lieutenant, 13th (Reserve) Highland Light Infantry, Hipswell
Camp, Richmond.
McKenzie, Frederick, '12.
Private, Army Service Corps, 96 Company, B.E.F., France.
McKenzie, Frederick E., '10.
Private, 1st Battalion, London Scottish.
McLean, Richard S., '09.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Cleadon.
McLean, Walter, '05.
Private, 2nd Reserve, West Riding Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical
Corps Territorial, Leeds.
McMillan, William F., B.Sc. (London), '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 15th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers,
Darlington.
Meadows, John, '07.
Private, 23rd Provisional Battalion, Hornsea.
Melvin, Ralph T., B.Sc. (London), '09.
Sapper, Royal Engineers, Wareham, Dorset.
Meredith, Henry, '09.
Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Hants., formerly Private, London Scottish.
Metcalfe, Alfred, '05.
Bombardier, A Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 51st Brigade, 9th Scottish
Division, B.E.F., France.
Metcalfe, Thomas Harrison, '11.
Private, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
**MICKELS THOMAS EDWARD, '08.
Writer, H.M.S. “Hawke”. Killed in Action, October 15th, 1914.
Miller, William W., '09.
Private, Border Regiment, Pioneers, Maidstone.
Mills, Frederick, '11.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Mitchell, Douglas, '13.
Gunner, Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Ripon.
Mitchell, George Oliver, '06.
Captain, 11th Divisional Train, Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
Mitchell, James, '06.
Second Engineer, H.M.S. “Jupiter II”, (mine sweeper).
Mitchell, Thomas M., '10.
Lieutenant, Army Veterinary Corps, 146th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Salonica, formerly B.E.F., France.
Mitchell, Victor C., '00.
Corporal, 86th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 28th Division,
B.M.E.F., Salonica, formerly British Expeditionary Force, France.
++ Mitchell, William McGregor, '01.
Lieutenant, Army Veterinary Corps, 1st Guards' Brigade, British
Expeditionary Force. Mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch, June 23rd,
1915.
Moffitt, James Prior, B.A. (Cantab), '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 16th Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F., formerly Lance-
Corporal, Lord Durham's County Battalion, 18th Durham Light Infantry.
* Moffitt, Robert, '10.
Sapper, Royal Anglesey, Royal Engineers, B.E.F. Wounded.
Moncur, James, '10.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, Aldershot.
**MONRO DUNCAN, '13.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Killed in Action, May 24-26th, 1915.
Moor, William J., '95.
Major, Northern Cyclists Battalion, Depot, Newcastle.
* Morgan, Stanley Barnsdale, '07.
Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
France. Wounded, May 24th, 1915.
Morris, Peter C., '08.
Private, 18th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Murray, Cyril Aubrey, '05.
Second-Lieutenant, 18th (S) Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Tyneside
Pioneers, Leyburn.
Mushens, Charles, '11.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, 2nd Malta Company, St. Patrick's
Hospital, Malta.
Neasham, Archibald, '96.
Staff Sergeant, 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps
Territorial, Brighton.
Neill, Charles Victor, '14.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Neill, R. Macfarlane, '12.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, B.E.F.
** NESBITT, THOMAS HUDSON, '95.
Sergeant, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Dardanelles. Killed
In Action, April 26th, 1915.
Newby, William Allan, '09.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Nicholson, Sim F., '97.
Corporal, 19th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
West Hartlepool.
Nicholson, Stanley, '07.
Sergeant, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Heavy Battery, Woolwich.
Noall, Alexander, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, (formerly Quartermaster-Sergeant), 7th Battalion,
Durham Light Infantry, Sunderland.
Noble, William Straughair, '08.
Private, 1st Tyneside Scottish, (Northumberland Fusiliers), Sandhill
Camp, Warminster.
Oliver, William J., '01.
Lieutenant, 19th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Masham,
Yorks.
Ord, Gilbert, '09.
Bombardier, C Battery, 69th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 13th
Division, B.M.E.F.
Oughton, Percy Bulmer, '04.
Bombardier, 1/1 Welsh Howitzer Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, B.E.F.,
France.
Pallister, John, '06.
Second-Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, Tynemouth.
Paton, Frederick, '06.
Gunnery Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M. Yacht “Bacchante II.”
+ Pattison, Charles L., '08.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Missing, since May 24th, 1915.
Pattison, Alfred N., '03.
Second-Lieutenant, 17th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers,
King George Dock, Hull.
Pearson, Alfred, '11.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Perris, Eric Loftus, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, (formerly Lance-Corporal), 4th Yorks., Northallerton.
** PETERSON, HAROLD, '08.
Private, 4th Yorks. (Prince of Wales's Own), British Expeditionary Force.
Killed in Action, May 1st, 1915.
Peterson, Thomas, '06.
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve.
Phalp, George Stafford, '09.
Private, 18th (S) Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
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Phorson, Frank, '12.
Driver, 2/3rd Northumberland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Low Fell.
Pickard, Frederick William, '12.
Bombardier, Wearside Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, Tidworth,
Hants.
Pigg, Norman B., '11.
Second-Lieutenant, Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly Private, 8th
Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Pinchen, John Allen, '15.
Lance-Corporal, Northumbrian Divisional Cycling Co., Whickham.
* Pollock, Charles W., B.A. (Durham), '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers,
British Expeditionary Force. Wounded, July 6th, 1916.
Pool, James Berkeley, '14.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Pope, William Stanley, '99.
Sergeant, 1st Newcastle Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Codford St.
Mary's, Wiltshire.
Porteous, George, Junior, '93.
Captain, Corps of Guides, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Salisbury Plain.
Potts, Frank William, '09.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, British Expeditionary Force.
**POTTS, THOMAS FAIRHEAD, '09.
Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. “Bayano”. Killed in Action, March 11th, 1915.
Prince, Thomas, '93.
Sergeant, 2/7th Durham Light Infantry, Gateshead.
Procter, George Donkin, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, Woolwich.
Proud, William J., '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Pyburn, Walter, '13.
Private, Durham Light Infantry, Assistant Drill Instructor, Newcastle
Barracks.
Quenet, William McDonald, '11.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Ramsay, Robert Watson, '11.
Quartermaster Sergeant, Wearside Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Tidworth, Hants.
Ranson, Henry M., '03.
Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant, Army Service Corps, G Squadron, Remount
Depot, Bristol.
Reah, Albert Allan, '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle.
Reed, George, '00.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, East Lancashire Field Ambulance, 42nd
Division, B.M.E.F.
Reed, Richard, '02.
Artificer-Sergeant, Royal Engineers, Despatch Rider,
British Expeditionary Force.
* Reed, Stanley Spencer, '02.
Lance-Corporal, 17th Lancers (“Death or Glory” Boys). Wounded and Frost-
bitten, British Expeditionary Force, February, 1915. Subsequently at
Record Office Canterbury and in Ireland. Now again B.E.F., France.
Renney, Clarence H., S.S.C., '03.
Second-Lieutenant, Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Richardson, Albert, '05.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Heavy Battery, Cleadon.
Richardson, Norman, B.A. (Durham), '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd Durham Light Infantry, South Shields.
Richardson, Percival, '01.
Second-Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Gallipoli.
Richardson, William H. '09.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/6th Durham Light Infantry, Darlington.
Risdon, Harold, '97.
Company Sergeant-Major, 2nd City of London Regiment, B.E.F.
Robertson, Neil McLeod, '02.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, British Expeditionary Force.
Robinson, Edgar, '07.
Private, 4th Queen's Regiment, Secundarabad.
Robinson, J. Charles, '98.
Private, 5th Battalion, West Yorks. Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
York.
Robson, Alan, '09.
Trooper, A Squadron, 2nd Troop, 10th Royal Hussars, B.E.F.
Robson, James Heward, '15.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd Northumberland Fusiliers, East Boldon.
* Robson, Robert K. B.A. (Durham), '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, D. L. I.
British Expeditionary Force. Wounded at Hooge, August 9th, 1915.
Robson, William, '03.
Lance-Sergeant, (Clerk to the Battalion), 17th (S) Durham Light
Infantry, Rugeley, Cannock Chase.
Rogers, Thomas W., '05.
Corporal, 7th (S) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Roscoe, Edgar, '11.
Lieutenant, 22nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, (3rd Battalion,
Tyneside Scottish).
Rothfield, Abraham, B.A. (Durham), '06.
Private, Civil Service Rifles, 4th London Infantry Brigade,
British Expeditionary Force.
Rothfield, Isaac, B.A. (Cantab), '11.
Second-Lieutenant, 16th King's Liverpool.
Rudd, Arnold, '11.
Lance-Corporal, Royal Anglesey, Royal Engineers, Beaumaris.
Salter, Cyril Jeffries, '03.
Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M. Patrol Yacht “Sapphire II.”
*Sands, George T., '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 8th Wilts., Wareham, formerly Lance-Corporal, 7th
(Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Wounded, May 24th, 1915.
Scorer, Whitfield, '15.
Private, Northumbrian Divisional Cycling Co., Whickham.
Scott, Frederick Dawson, '10.
Sapper, Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers, Beaumaris.
Scott, Robert Watson, '98.
Private, 2nd Overseas Draft, 54th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary
Force.
Scott, Thomas, B.A. (Durham), '10.
Army Service Corps.
Sephton, Robert Wilson, '13.
Private, 18th (S) Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Shaw, Robert, '95.
Lieutenant, 10th (S) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Seaford,
Sussex.
Shields, Edwin B., '05.
Second-Lieutenant, 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, South Shields,
formerly Trooper, Royal Horse Guards Blue.
Shields, Frederick T., '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, West Yorks., Falmouth, formerly
Trooper, Royal Horse Guards Blue.
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Shiells, James R., '10.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Simpson, Henry S., '10.
Driver, Army Service Corps, No. 3 Co., 1st Northumbrian Divisional Train,
B.E.F., France.
* Sladden, Harry E., B.A. (Durham), '10.
Second-Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force. Wounded, April, 1915.
Slawther, Lancelot, '11.
Private, Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
Slight, Tom, '12.
Lance-Corporal, Northumbrian Divisional Cycling Co., Darlington.
Smith, George C., '13.
Private, 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, Fort William, Calcutta.
Smith, Gordon H., '13.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/1 Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Newcastle.
Smith, K. Ivor S., M.B., B.S. (Durham), '09.
Captain, 2/1 Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.,
York.
Smith, Sydney J.C., '14.
Second-Lieutenant, 3/1 Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Newcastle.
Southwick, Arthur, '07.
Private, No.44 S Company, Army Ordnance Corps, B.M.E.F.
Spain, Isaac, '05.
Second-Lieutenant, Tyneside Irish Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Speight, Arthur, '11.
Lance-Corporal, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry,
British Expeditionary Force.
Speight, Ronald, '11.
Private, C Company, Royal Engineers, Chatham.
Spencer, Percy, '94.
Second-Lieutenant, 20th Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle, formerly
Sergeant, 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
**STAFFORD, ROBERT, '08.
Private, 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Killed in Action, between April 28th and June 26th, 1915.
Stephenson, Harold, '11.
Private, Northern Cyclists Battalion, Whitburn.
Stephenson, Thomas N., '13.
Private, 11th Battalion, Queen Alexandra's Own (Yorks.) Regiment,
B.M.E.F., Serbia.
Stoddart, Francis, '14.
Private, Signalling Section, 3/7th Durham Light Infantry,
Houghton le Spring.
Stokoe, William, '07.
Lord Durham's County Battalion, 18th (S) Durham Light Infantry.
Storey, George, '11.
Private, Northern Cyclists' Battalion, Ashington.
Suffield, Norman Lionel, '09.
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, Hull.
Sutcliffe, Ronald, '13.
Second-Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Oxford.
Swann, Christopher S., '07.
Second-Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, Tynemouth.
Tate, Harold, '97.
Corporal, Coldstream Guards, Windsor.
Taylor, Alexander, '03.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Devonshire.”
Taylor, Arthur, '02.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Caroline.”
Thackray, Alfred Thomas, '13.
Second-Lieutenant, 9th East Yorks.
Thomas Brynmor, '10.
Trooper, Northumberland Hussars, Stocksfield-on-Tyne.
Thompson, Herbert, '02.
Second-Lieutenant, (late Sergeant), 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Scouts, British Expeditionary Force.
Thompson, Percy Noel, '05.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, British Expeditionary Force.
Thomson, Lancelot George, '03.
Sergeant, 41st Siege Battery, Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth. Was in
Hartlepool Bombardment.
Thornton, John, '96.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Loyal.”
** TILLEY, ARTHUR BOSTON, '07.
Corporal, Canadian Expeditionary Force, France. Killed in Action,
June 15th, 1915.
Todd, Alexander, '10.
Private, 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, High Wycombe.
** TODD, CHARLES ADOLPHUS, '06.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force. Killed in Action.
May 31st, 1915.
Todd, James Dowell, '08.
Second-Lieutenant, 13th West Yorks., (Prince of Wales's Own), Stafford.
Tonkinson, John Alfred, '07.
Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. “Liberty”.
Topel, Oscar, '12.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich.
Torbet, James R., '10.
Gunner, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich.
Turner, Charles, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 2/3rd Northumbrian Brigade, Low Fell.
Turpin, Ernest, '06.
Private, Northern Cyclists' Battalion.
Turpin, Frederick Vernon, '04.
In Armourer's Crew, H.M.S. “Barham”.
Tweedie, Douglas, '10.
Corporal, Northern Cyclists' Battalion, Sunderland.
Ure, Harold Oswald, '01.
Lance-Corporal, Royal Engineers, Signalling Co., Bletchley, Bucks.
Wade, Charles Herbert, '03.
Second-Lieutenant, 9th Durham Light Infantry, Rothbury; formerly Lance-
Corporal, 7th Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F.
Wade, Horace Leslie, '09.
Gunner, 160th Royal Field Artillery, Salisbury Plain.
Wade, William C.O., '07.
Private, 16th (Commercial) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Salisbury
Plain.
Walker, Charles, '11.
Private, 13th Battalion, Yorks. Regiment, Skipton.
Walker, William Edward, '12.
Private, Lord Durham's Battalion, 18th Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Walker, William Ewart, '12.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Sunderland.
Walker, William Pitt, '09.
Second-Lieutenant, Wearside Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, Salisbury.
Walton, Norman George, '07.
Private, 7th (Reserve) Durham Light Infantry, Sunderland.
Wanless, Charles E.O., '11.
Private, 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Heworth.
Wardropper, Harry, '10.
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, B.E.F., France.
Warren, William, '09.
Sergeant, Royal Garrison Artillery, B.E.F., France.
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Watson, Edward Lord, '07.
Lieutenant, 6th (Service) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, Mesopotamia.
Watson, George Carr, M.A. (Cambridge), '03.
Captain, 6th (Service) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, Amritsar, Lahore.
Watson, Stanley, '09.
Private, Army Ordnance Corps, Woolwich.
Watt, William, '12.
Cook's Mate, Royal Naval Air Service, Redcar.
Wayman, Fawcitt, '15.
Second-Lieutenant, 17th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Cannock Chase.
Webster, William Armstrong, '09.
Second-Lieutenant, Durham (Fortress) Royal Engineers, Jarrow on Tyne.
Welch, Thomas Ridley, '12.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Welsh, John G.E., '09.
Sergeant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 23rd General Hospital, B.E.F.,
France.
Welton, George S., '09.
Private, 18th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Whipp, George, '97.
Sapper, Royal Engineers (Postal Section), B.E.F.
White, James Donaldson, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 6th Durham Light Infantry.
White, John Henry, '15.
Second-Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment,
Whitley Bay.
White, William J., '03.
Second-Lieutenant, 15th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Ripon.
Whitehouse, George A., '08.
Private, Northern Cyclists' Battalion.
Whitehouse, William S., '11.
Private, Royal Fusiliers, Mansfield, Notts.
Whittaker, Thomas, '99.
Corporal, 3/3rd Northumbrian Royal Field Artillery, Leighton Buzzard.
* Wigzell, Richard, '97.
Private, 12th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force, Cairo. Wounded.
April 30th, 1915.
Wilkinson, Albert Edward, '05.
Lance-Corporal, 16th Durham Light Infantry, Cannock Chase.
Wilkinson, Frank, '07.
Second-Lieutenant, 2/3rd Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
Low Fell.
Wilkinson, George, '15.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Wilkinson, Hartley, '08.
Second-Lieutenant, Tyneside Irish, Alnwick.
Wilkinson, Henry, '10.
Cadet, Officers' Training Corps, Armstrong College, Newcastle.
Wilkinson, William L., '07.
Private, 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
B.E.F.
Williams, Walter B., '09.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force.
Williams, William J., '11.
Private, 23rd Provisional Battalion, Hornsea.
Williamson, William, '12.
Private, Royal Anglesey, Royal Engineers, Beaumaris.
Wilson, Charles Watson, '04.
Lieutenant, 63rd Divisional Cyclist Co., Whickham.
Wilson, Henry, '99.
Private, 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Wilson, Henry, '14.
Trumpeter, Northumbrian Division, Army Service Corps, Heaton, Newcastle.
Wilson, Joseph James, '05.
Private, Northern Cyclists' Battalion, Blyth.
* Wilson, Percy, '00.
Sergeant, 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, B.E.F. Wounded (thigh
bone fractured by shrapnel) near Loos, September 26th 1915. 5th Northern
General Hospital, Leicester.
Wilson, Robert Hardy, '05.
Engineer, Patrol Yacht “Sayanora”.
Wilson, Roger E., '10.
Private, 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary
Force.
* Wilson, Roy, '10.
Lance-Corporal, 21st (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, B.E.F.
Wounded in the right arm on December 4th, 1915. Now in St Bartholomew's
Hospital, London.
Wilson, William Worthington, '08.
Lance-Sergeant, Lord Durham's County Battalion, 18th (S) Durham Light
Infantry, Salisbury Plain.
Winship, William French, '09.
Private, 18th (S) Battalion Durham Light Infantry, B.M.E.F.
Winstanley, Robert H., '91.
Company Sergeant-Major Instructor, Durham Light Infantry, York.
Witten, Charlton P., '93.
Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, B.E.F.
Witten, Robert B., '97.
Sergeant, Durham (Fortress) Royal Engineers, Barnsley.
Wright, Stanley Clarkson, '00.
Sergeant, Royal Garrison Artillery, 23rd Brigade, Headquarters Staff,
B.E.F.
Young, George Robert, '13.
Private, 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, Ashford, Middlesex.
Young, Thomas Beveridge, '10.
Private, Motor Transport, Army Service Corps, London.
Young, Thomas Campbell, '12.
Private, 41st Company, Army Ordnance Corps, Havre, France.
BEDE SCHOOL MASTERS ON MILITARY SERVICE.
Back, Nicholas, B.A. (Camb.).
Second-Lieutenant, 1st Service Battery, 1st East Anglian Brigade, Royal
Field Artillery, St Faith's.
Dodd, John Albert, M.A. (London).
Captain, Northern Cyclists' Brigade, B.E.F., France. Expects to go to
Egypt shortly.
Joseph, Henry Harold, B.A. (Cambridge).
Captain, 7th Durham Light Infantry, Newcastle upon Tyne. In a fall, the
result of breaking a stirrup-leather when his horse was jumping an
obstacle, he fractured his arm badly. Was seven weeks in hospital.
Liebrecht, William Ebenezer.
Lieutenant and Quartermaster, War Depot, Fenham Barracks,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
White, Stewart Alexander, M.A. (Oxford).
Captain (Adjutant), 2nd Battalion, Tyneside Scottish, Warminster.
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BEDE SCHOOL MASTERS ATTESTED.
Blyth, Thomas Hope, B.Sc. (Durham).
Clement, Howell Rees, B.A. (Wales).
Findlater, James William, M.A., M. Litt. (Durham).
Grisdale, John Charles Alexander, M.A. (Edinburgh).
Hildebrand, Christopher Webb, B.A. (T.C.D.)
Wayman, Paul, Clerk at the School.
KILLED IN ACTION.
(Brief Obituary Notices of Lance-Corporal T.B.L. Bubb, Lieutenant F.
Haswell, Private I. Jackson, Writer T.E. Mickels, Sergeant T.H. Nesbitt,
Private H. Peterson, Seaman T.F. Potts, Corporal A.B. Tilley and
Private C.A. Todd appeared in the July Bedan.)
PRIVATE WILLIAM GRAHAM DOBSON.
25 years old. Husband of Mrs Isobel Dobson. Son of Mr J.G. Dobson, 52
Warwick Street, Monkwearmouth. Was at Bede School for 3 years (including
2 years in the Pupil Teachers' Section), and left in 1908. Passed through
Sunderland Training College. Enlisted in 7th Durham Light Infantry in
1914, from Brookfields School, Birmingham, where he was a popular
Assistant Master. Killed Whit Monday, 1915. His only child had died just
a fortnight before that.
PRIVATE ROBERT HOGG.
21. Only son and only child of Mr.& Mrs. William Hogg, Marsden Grove,
Whitburn, and grandson of Mrs. Humphrey. Was at Bede School for four
Years, and left in 1911. Gained honours in both the Junior and the Senior
Oxford “Locals”, and got “colours” for both cricket and football. Had a
very fine disposition, and was greatly liked and respected in the School.
Went to Bede College, Durham, and qualified as a schoolmaster. Was
appointed to a post in Seaham Colliery School, but owing to mobilisation
of the Forces in August, 1914, never entered upon his new duties. Went to
France in Bede College Company of the 8th Durham Light Infantry.
Killed, April 26th, 1915.
CORPORAL RICHARD J. LEACH
27. Son of Mr. Richard Leach, 9 Salem Hill, Sunderland. Was at Bede
School from January 1899 to July 1903. Used to be in the same Form as
Private Wayman Cook (who lost his right arm in Gallipoli). Joined 7th
Durham Light Infantry. Killed on Whit Monday, 1915.
PRIVATE DUNCAN MONRO
20. Son of Mr. & Mrs. George Monro, 52 Horatio Street, Roker. At Bede
School from 1907 to 1913. Passed the Oxford Junior and Senior “Locals”. A
very quiet lad. Went to Sunderland Training College. Joined 7th Durham
Light Infantry. Killed May 24th-26th, 1915.
PRIVATE ROBERT STAFFORD
25. Eldest son of Mrs. Stafford, 79 Cleveland Road, Sunderland, and of
the late Captain R.H. Stafford. Was at Bede School for five years
(including two years spent in the Pupils Teachers' Section) and left in
1908. Proceeded to Bede College, Durham. Well known in both Sunderland
and Durham as a capital oarsman. Went to France, in the 8th Durham Light
Infantry, on April 19th, 1915. Reported missing, April 26th. Officially
reported as killed in action between April 28th and June 26th, and was
buried east of Ypres.
P.S. It seems worth remarking that, of the five gallant fellows to whom
the foregoing short notices refer, no fewer than four were young
schoolmasters.
EDITORIAL NOTES AND SCHOOL NEWS.
LIEUTENANT H.F.T. HOGBEN.
From The Times, December 10th, 1915.
“Lieutenant Henry Francis Thomas Hogben, 10th Middlesex Regiment,
attached 2nd Norfolk Regiment, who was killed in Mesopotamia between
November 22nd and 24th, was the eldest son of Mr. F. Hogben and Mrs.
Hogben, of Sunderland. Born 1890, he was educated at Parsonstown School,
Ireland, and at Bedford Grammar School, and entered the Medical School of
Guy's Hospital in 1909, winning the London University Open Scholarship.
He was a member of the Bedford Grammar School Cadet Corps, 1905-1909, and
of the Artists' Rifles, 1909-1913, and obtained a commission in the 10th
Middlesex Regiment in July 1913. He went with his regiment to India in
October, 1914, and in April, 1915, was selected to take a draft from the
10th Middlesex Regiment to the Persian Gulf. He played football for
Guy's, excelled in boxing, and was a powerful swimmer. In the years 1908-
1914 he won many distinctions at Bisley. He was in the Bedford Grammar
School Eight, and twice captained the London University Eight. He won the
Open Championship of London
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University Athletic Union Rifle Association and the All-Comers' Aggregate
in 1913, and was in the King's Hundred in 1913 and 1914."
The late Lieut. Henry Hogben's father, Mr Frederick Hogben, B.A. is
Senior Classical Master at Bede School, and has been on the Staff for
seven years. Every one of Mr Hogben's colleagues and pupils, past and
present, sympathizes with him and Mrs Hogben and their family, in the
irreparable loss which they have sustained. The gallant young officer who
fought and died at Ctesiphon was a giant in stature, and, in character
and ability, a man of whom his relatives might well be proud. To him and
them – as to every other man who has laid down his life for England, and to such a man's friends – we feel that we owe a debt of real, personal
gratitude.
Mr Hogben's second son, Lieut. Eric Hogben, who was at Cambridge when the
War began, is now at the Front in France, with the Cyclists' Company, 19th
Division. He and Capt. J.A. Dodd, a Bede School Master who has now gone
to Egypt, happened to be successively in the same billets in France.
THE REV. A.R. EYLES.
At Convocation at Durham University on 14th December, the degree of M.A.
was conferred on the Rev. Arthur Reginald Eyles, Curate of St.
Augustine’s, Derby. He was at Bede School from 1901 to 1906, and at
Hatfield Hall, Durham, from 1906 to 1909, when he took his B.A. degree.
MR. EDWARD BOWDEN.
We hear with very much pleasure that Edward Bowden has been appointed
Manager of the new Munitions Factory at Woolwich, where he will have
under him two thousand men.
He was at Bede School for five years, and left in 1905. In 1908, after a
three years' course at Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, he took the
Durham B.Sc. degree in Engineering, with distinction. In 1907 he shared
with another student the Senior Pemberton Scholarship. In 1909 he was
made a Royal Exhibition Probationary Bursar, and devoted himself mainly
to research. He was particularly associated with a professor in carrying
on investigations the purpose of which was to try to find out how, and to
what extent, explosions in coal mines are caused or affected by the
presence of coal dust. In 1910 he was awarded a Royal Exhibition (1851)
Scholarship of £150 a year for two years – a very valuable Scholarship
which was won by another Old Bedan, Harold Smith, in 1912, and by still
another, Stanley Robinson, in 1913.
From 1910 to 1914 Bowden studied in Germany, his course (which he
completed just a few days before War was declared) being that for Diplom
Ingenieur, Badische Technische Hochschule zu Karlsruhe. In 1912 he took
the M.Sc. degree of Durham University.
Having secured his German diploma he returned to England, and was
appointed to a post, which he has held until now, in the Explosives
Department, Woolwich Arsenal.
We heartily congratulate him on his latest (and, we feel certain, well-
deserved) success.
Edward Bowden is the son of Mrs Bowden, Belford Terrace, Sunderland and
of the late Mr J.A. Bowden, for many years Manager, Messrs. John
Dickinson & Sons’ Engineering Works, Palmers Hill, Sunderland. His
father and mother were always staunch supporters of Bede School. His
brother William (who died when a medical student at Newcastle) was a
pupil at the Boys’ School for several years, and took an active part in
some of the Societies. His sister Katie, long a pupil in the Girls'
School, was renowned as a hockey player.
The late MR. JOHN BOON.
Bede Boys’ School begs leave to express sympathy with Miss Boon, Headmistress of Bede Girls’ School, whose father died recently. Mr. Boon was a well-known and highly-respected Manchester man.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Though this Number of The Bedan is of unusual size, we regret that many extracts from soldiers’ letters, and many items of school news (about the big influx of pupils, Mr. Reynolds’s lecture on Poland, the Attestation Holiday, etc.), have been literally squeezed out.
Councillor JOHN WRIGHT JOHNSON,
55 years of age,
Chairman of the Governors,
Sunderland Bede Collegiate Schools,
Killed,
Together with his only Son,
Corpl. JOHN WRIGHT JOHNSON Junr.,
23 years of age,
In a Railway Accident near Tyne Dock,
Friday, December 17th, 1915.
Councillor Johnson was a Governor of the Bede Schools for eleven years,
and Chairman of the Governors for six years. His eldest daughter now the
wife of Dr. Carse, and his younger daughter, Miss Mary Johnson, now a
student at Newnham College, Cambridge, and one of the most distinguished
of Girl Bedans, were successively in the Girls’ School for about fourteen
years, and his son was a pupil in the Boys’ School from 1902 to 1908.
Councillor Johnson, therefore, came naturally to have a most extensive
and intimate knowledge of everything connected with the Schools-their
aims, tone, staff, schemes of instruction, premises, and general
conditions.
Though active and efficient in various departments of Corporation work
(especially as Chairman of the Higher Education Sub-Committee and
Vice-Chairman of the Watch Committee), he perhaps took a greater interest
in the provision and management of public secondary education than in any
other municipal matter. He used to say “When I consider how many hundreds
of boys and girls in Sunderland require public secondary education, what
fine material many of them are, and what a big range of important walks
of life they will enter and influence after leaving school, I am
impressed by the magnitude and significance of the whole question; and I
want to do whatever is in my power to secure that my native town shall at
least not be inferior to other large places in the matter of facilities
for secondary education.”
The Bede Schools never had a better, wiser, more steadfast friend than
Councillor Johnson, and they will always hold his name in honour and
grateful remembrance.
This afternoon (Saturday, Dec. 18th), the present Number of The Bedan
was in type and about to be printed, when the sad news of Coun. Johnson’s
tragic end was received. It is hard for anybody who spoke to him on
Thursday, when he was quite well and (as usual) bright, genial, urbane,
and good-humoured, to realise that he and his son have been dead since
Friday morning, and that the dreadful fire which succeeded the railway
collision rendered them unrecognisable. It is harder still to give,
immediately, anything like adequate expression either to the profound
sympathy with his widow and daughters, and with his sister and brothers,
which their double loss naturally calls forth, or to the respect and
affection in which he was held by everybody at the Schools, on account of
of his kindness, sincerity, ability, quiet strength of character,
dis-interested public service, and unfailing fair- mindedness. This last
was perhaps his most remarkable quality: no desire to “score,” no
temptation to indulge in a little casuistry likely to be serviceable
for the moment, ever led him to say or do anything but what his best
judgement deemed right and fair.
The “breaking-up” concerts and other social gatherings at the Schools
arranged for next week, will not be held.
Councillor Johnson was a deeply religious man and an unremitting student
of the Bible. The circumstances under which he and his son passed away
cannot but recall to one’s own mind the familiar words applied by David
to another father and son: they “were lovely and pleasant in their
lives, and in their deaths they were not divided:” and the still more
appropriate passage from the Book of Wisdom: “The souls of the righteous
are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the
sight of the unwise they seemed to die; and their departure is taken for
misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction. But they are in
peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope
full of immortality. And having been a little chastised, they shall be
greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
As God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the
furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.”
G.T.F.
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