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Acworth John Arden
British Second Lieutenant 1st / 7th Bn. Worcestershire Regiment 19 20 may 1898 13 october 1917 Son of H. A. Acworth, of "The Palms," Orchard Rd., Malvern He came to Winchester College 1911-16 from Twyford School where he was Head Boy. He was in Culver House with the Reverend F P David and in his last year won the King’s Gold Medal for English Essay and the Moore-Stevens Divinity Prize. He went up to Magdalen College, Oxford in the autumn of 1916, and spent a term waiting until he was old enough to join an Officer Cadet Battalion. Dozinghem Military Cemetery Plot XII , Row H , Stone 20 |
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Military Footsteps
25 april 1917 27 june 1917 October 1917 9 october 1917 |
Gazetted Second Lieutenant, after four months training at Oxford, to the 3rd/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at Catterick, and two months later was transferred to the 1st/7th Battalion, Worcestershires Proceeding to France Paid a last visit in England before leaving for France, apart from to his own home, was to Winchester and his old House. He went into action for the first and only time , towards the end of the campaign which culminated in the capture of Passchendaele Ridge. He fell severely wounded in the chest by a shell splinter in the early morning while in command of his company. He was taken to a Field Ambulance Unit and a dressing station, and then to No. 4 Casualty Clearing Staiton (Dozinghem) at Westvleteren. However, a few days later gas gangrene developed in the wound and he died. The Hospital Matron wrote to his father that “everything possible was done for him, he died very suddenly at 4.45 p.m. on October 13th”. He had been conscious very nearly to the last, and showed himself, as the Matron testified, “a good patient” |
Twyford School
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Winchester College
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Magdalen College , Oxford
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Allison Frederick Crichton
Scottish Leading Seaman Drake Bn. R.N. Div. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 22 12 october 1917 Fourth son of James and Jane T. Young Allison, of 5, Ventnor Terrace, Edinburgh. Educated at George Watson's College 1889-98 ,Glenalmond School 1901 and Glasgow Technical Mining College Mining Engineer in London Dozinghem Military Cemetery Plot X , Row F , Stone 13 |
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Military footsteps
July 1917 12 october 1917 |
In the ranks of the R.N.D. he served in Gallipoli, whence he was invalided to Malta Proceeded to France Died of wounds |
Glenalmond College
George Watson's College
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Glasgow Technical Mining College
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Anderson Thomas
Scottish Lance Corporal 1st/4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders 27 26 june 1890 ,Aberdeen 23 september 1917 Son of Thomas and Mary Arm Anderson, of 221, Great Northern Rd., Woodside, Aberdeen. Single Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University where graduated M.A. in 1911 Was subsequently a Schoolmaster , forst at Stonehaven Academy and then at Newmachar Public School , Aberdeen. He worked at a munition factory from October 1915 to May 1916. Dozinghem Military Cemetery Plot VIII , Row C , Stone 13 |
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Military footsteps
May 1916 September 1916 October 1916 January 1917 April 1917 23 september 1917 |
Joined the Gordon Highlanders Passed as First Class Scout and Sniper at Cannock Chase Proceeded to the Front , joining the 5th Bn. Gordon Highlanders Invalided home with trench fever and laryngitis Returned to duty and joined the 4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders Died of wounds at N°4 Casualty Clearing Station received at Poelcapelle |
Aberdeen Grammar School
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Aberdeen University
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