He was made a Captain in August 1915, and shortly afterwards received shrapnel wounds to his left thigh and right hand at the battle of Hooge, for which he was hospitalised at Étaples. While at Oxford he was a keen hockey player, and a member of the Officer Training Corps. He was educated at the Oratory School, Birmingham, and matriculated at Merton in 1912. Philip Bellasis was the youngest son of William Dalglish Bellasis and Marie Sophie Dalglish Bellasis (daughter of the Marquis de Guerry de Lauret) of Stanley, Goring, Oxfordshire. He was killed in action at Le Bois des Crapouillots, near Ypres, France on 29 July 1917.ĥth (Service) Battalion, King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)Ĭommemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated on the war memorial at Shrewsbury Cathedral. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 October 1915, and was wounded during April 1916. On the outbreak of war he was given a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anti-Aircraft Corps, but was transferred to the Grenadier Guards (Special Reserve) in September 1915, where he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1916 and Acting Captain in January 1917. In 1895 he became a member of the Stock Exchange. He later played for Blackheath and Barbarians. Whilst at Merton he was a member of the OURUFC 1st XV, which he captained in 1892. He was educated at The Abbey School in Beckenham, Kent and at Sherborne School, where he was a member of the cricket 1st XI, and the rugby 1st XV. He married Gwendoline Maud Peyman on 6 October 1898. Thanks to the efforts of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust and the In From the Cold Project, in 2012 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission accepted him as a casualty of the First World War, and commissioned a new headstone for his grave.Īdditional information from Michael Cross at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust with thanks to the Oxfordshire Family History Society.īuried at Duhallow ADS (Advanced Dressing Station) Cemetery, near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium. Also commemorated on the Lord's Cricket Ground MCC Members WWI war memorial in the Lord's Pavilion.Ĭecil Baker was the third son of Arthur Henry Baker JP FRS and Clara, née Mortimer, of Elderslie, Beckenham, Kent. He died in Oxford on 3 January 1919, leaving his wife to bring up her three children – two from a previous marriage – on a Widow’s War Pension. There it was discovered he was suffering from diabetes, and in August he was discharged as ‘permanently unfit for further military service’, which had been ‘aggravated by active service’. He suffered gunshot wounds to his left eye in September 1917, and his left leg in April 1918, after which he was sent back to England. He sailed for France on 16 December 1916, in all likelihood one of a number of Hussars who joined the 1/4th Battalion on the Somme shortly before Christmas that year. He worked as a College Porter, and lived in Argyle Street, a 20-minute walk from Merton just off the Iffley Road.īefore the war he served as a territorial in the Royal Army Medical Corps for four years he enlisted in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, also known as the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars - or the ‘Queer Objects On Horseback’! - on 10 December 1915, and joined the 3/1st Battalion. He was married to Mondona Annie, née Willcox, in 1911, and they had a child, also called Alfred, the following year. Also commemorated on a memorial at St Mary and St John Church, Cowley.Īlfred Allcorn was the eldest son of Alfred Frederick Allcorn and Kate, née Benson, of Cowley, Oxford. Here are some of the faces and stories connected to these names.Ģ/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantryĭied from diabetes, 3 January 1919, aged 36īuried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford. Ranks were likewise not included against the 43 names that were added to the memorial in 1947 following World War II. There are 109 names listed on the memorial under the dates '1914-1918', among them six College servants, a Fellow's son, an Olympic athlete - and two German Rhodes Scholars, whose names were added in 1994, after a campaign by Tom Braun, then Tutor in Ancient History, who had himself come to Britain as a refugee from Germany in 1938. To reflect the equality of sacrifice, no military ranks are listed on the memorial. Our research then continued to cover those who had fallen during the Second World War. To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014, we found out more about the men who lost their lives in 'The War to End All Wars'. It is easy to walk past the College War Memorial, situated under the Fitzjames Arch between Front and Fellows' Quads, without taking a second glance at the names listed.
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