Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

From August 2014 until 2019, each man named on the War Memorial at Radley College will be remembered by name in Chapel on the centenary of his death. The database of all those who fell in WW1 and WW2 can be accessed at http://www.radleyarchives.co.uk/

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

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Second Battle of the Somme 21st March 1918 Reginald Hodgson John Moore, MC Horace Stevens Photographs of the Pozieres and Arras Memorials by Nick Bennett & Charlie Barber for ‘Marching in Memory’ July 2015

Reginald Hodgson, D Social 1893, Captain, 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme At school he was a Junior Scholar, a Prefect and won the English Literature Prize. He represented the School at boxing and went on to receive a half-blue for both boxing and fencing for Oxford University. After school he studied at University College, Oxford, became a barrister at the Inner Temple and an underwriter at Lloyd’s. He was the youngest son of Henry John Hodgson, Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and of Mrs. Hodgson, of Keble Road, Oxford. He had his commission early in the war, and was Lieutenant in December, 1914; he was gazetted Captain in February, 1916. Aged 38 AND	Captain Reginald Hodgson The name of Reginald Hodgson on the Pozieres Memorial.
John Moore, MC, F Social 1907, Major, Cheshire Regt, attached 71st Cpy, Machine Gun Corps, Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme Cheshire Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps (killed in action on March 21), was son of the late Captain G. H. Moore, Camden Hill, Cranbrook, Kent, and of Mrs. Moore, of Filsham House, St. Leonards-on·Sea. He was twenty-four years of age; he had promotion in the Cheshires in November, 1915, and, transferring to the Machine Gun Corps, became acting Captain in June, 1917. He was at Radley, 1907-1909, and had been mentioned twice in despatches.. Aged 24 AND	The name of John Moore, MC, on the Arras Memorial.
Horace Stevens, College Staff, Lance-Corporal, 2nd/4th Bn, Ox & Bucks LI Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme	The name of Horace Stevens on the Pozieres Memorial.

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

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30th November 1917

W Hermon, College Staff. Lance-Corporal, 5th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Killed in action in the Battle of Cambrai.

The story of Radley’s ‘Servants Memorial‘ can be read as No. 15 in 100 Radley Objects.

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

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10th November 1917

Gilbert Vawdrey, C Social 1911. 2nd Lt, 2nd Bn, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action, Passchendaele

He was a Prefect and a member of Radley’s first Rugby XV. In 1916, he went to Sandhurst.

He obtained his commission in the Welsh Regiment in August of the same year, and went to the front in September, 1916, where he has been ever since. A senior officer writes : – “At the time he was killed he was carrying a most important message, and was on his way to headquarters. During the whole day he had been doing most gallant and useful work.“

Aged 20

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John Boswell, E Social 1904. Gunner, E Company, Tank Corps. Killed in action near Gaza, Palestine

He served as a career officer with the Royal Bucks Hussars Yeomanry from 1909-1911. In 1911 he went to Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) as a planter. He re-joined his regiment in 1915. He suffered from a stammer which may have caused him to resign his commission. He applied to join the newly formed Tank Corps, and served with E Corps under Allenby in Palestine.

He married Alfreda Hurley in 1916.

Aged 28

2nd Lt Gilbert Vawdrey, Welsh Regt. kia Passchendaele

Gilbert Vawdrey, member of Radley’s earliest Rugby XV, 1914

The grave of Gilbert Vawdrey ar Duhallow. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

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The grave of Frederick Haden at Monchy-le-Preux. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

Battle of Passchendaele / 3rd Battle of Ypres

4th November 1917

Frederick Haden, H Social 1913. 2nd Lt, 11th Trench Mortar Battery. Killed in action, Passchendaele

Last year he passed the entrance examination at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the “Little Go,” but had not gone into residence. He went to the front on June 8, and after a short time with his battalion was attached to the T.M. Battery. His Captain expresses “the deepest sympathy and sorrow felt by the officers N.C.O.’s, and men of the battery, with whom he was a great favourite, and also the share in your loss, in that we have lost a most capable and efficient officer.”

The C.F. writes: “I had known him since his earliest days in this division, and known him for a quiet, charming boy a faithful Churchman, and quite fearless. Humanly speaking, we can ill-afford boys like that; they carry in them the promise of a tremendous manhood.”

Aged 19

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2nd Lt Frederick Haden. kia Passchendaele

George Wilson, MC, F Social 1903. Major, 282nd Bde, Royal Field Artillery. Died of gas poisoning, Passchendaele

After school, he joined the London Stock Exchange. He married in 1912. He joined up as a Territorial in August 1914, eventually going out to the Western Front in October 1915. He was mentioned in despatches and promoted to the rank of acting Major.

He was one of four brothers. His eldest brother (who also won the Military Cross) was killed in action in May 1916; his youngest brother died of wounds in November 1916. His only surviving brother was serving at the Front with the Royal Field Artillery when George died of gas poisoning.

Aged 27

Major George Wilson, Royal Field Artillery. Died of gas poisoning, Passchendaele

George Wilson’s grave at Gwalia. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

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Captain John Milne’s name on the Arras Flying Services Memorial. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

6th October 1917.

John Milne, MC, G Social 1909. Captain, 48th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Missing in action on 6th October 1917. Presumed dead, 1918

He transferred from the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry to the Royal Flying Corps. He was mentioned in despatches. He married Joan Hanmer in 1917, just a few months before he went missing.

Citation for the Military Cross: Temp. Lt. (Temp. Capt.) J. T. Milne, Gen. List and R.F.C. Whilst leading offensive patrols, he has shown great determination and courage in attacking hostile formations, although in superior numbers, at close range. He has also done long and arduous reconnaissances and secured good photographs under very adverse conditions and heavy fire, displaying throughout an admirable spirit of fearlessness and energy.

Aged 22