killed in action

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

The name of Maurice Howell on the Loos Memorial. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015

25th September 1915

Battle of Loos

Maurice Howell, D Social 1908. 2nd Lt, 1st Bn, Royal West Surrey Regt. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos.

‘On the outbreak of war he obtained a nomination for Sandhurst, and received his commission in November, 1914. He left for France in the next month. His colonel writes that he was killed “while gallantly entering the German first line trench at the head of his platoon.”

Aged 19

Maurice Howell, 2nd Lt, 1st Bn, Royal West Surrey Regt. kia 25 September 1915

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

25th September 1915

Battle of Loos

Horace Collins, College Staff. Private, 5th Bn, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos.

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

Today we remember …

9th August 1915. Today we remember two Radleians who fell, one in France, the other at Gallipoli.

Basil Constable, E Social 1900. Captain, 1/4th Bn, Royal Sussex Regt. A career soldier, he died of wounds received at Gallipoli. Aged 31.

Basil Constable, Captain, 1/4th Bn, Royal Sussex Regt. Died of wounds 9 August 1915

The grave of Basil Constable at Green Hill Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsular. Photo David Bennett, 18 May 2015

Green Hill Cemetery. Grave of Basil Constable in foreground. Photo David Bennett, 18 May 2015

Gilbert Holcroft, 2nd Lt, 2nd Bn, Durham LI. kia 9 August 1915

Gilbert Holcroft, G Social 1909. 2nd Lt, 2nd Bn, Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action in the Actions of Hooge. ‘He was in his 21st year. He was educated at Radley College and Queens’ College, Cambridge. At the beginning of the war he left Cambridge for Sandhurst. He was a fine oar and rowed in his college boat at Cambridge.’. Aged 20

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

Today we remember …

26th July 1915. Cecil Palmer, H & G Socials 1888. Lt-Col commanding, 9th Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regt. Killed in action at Gallipoli. The Warwickshires were one of Kitchener’s newly recruited forces. Cecil Palmer, a career soldier, was called up from retirement to command them. He left a widow and three children. Aged 42