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The War Memorial outside thye Chapel of the Leys School, Cambridge
(Photo : John Harding of The Leys School)
The Leys School, in the Trumpington Road, Cambridge was established in 1874 by the Wesleyan Methodist body to futher a high-class education under Evangelical auspices to the sons of Ministers or laymen of all denominations. Boys were admitted between the ages of 10 to 19, to be prepared for the Universities, professional or commercial pursuits.
The Leys School War Memorial took the form of a Mural Tablet in stone, on which were four panels with a central canopied figure of St. George in armour. The four panels held the names of 149 Old Boys who gave their lives in the Great War. Two additional panels were added, one at each side, to commemorate the names of those who fell in the Second World War.
More photographs, historical details and transcripts (including biographies of the three Yorkshire Regiment men found on the memorial) can be found on http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/CambridgeLeysSchool1914-19.html
We are very grateful to John Harding of the Leys School for permission to use his photographs.
Lieutenant Allan Pyman. 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd
Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915. Aged 19.
Resided Seaton Carew.
Commemorated on Panel 12, LE TOURET MEMORIAL.
Further information from
1. Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
PDF file with details of Alan
Pyman's Family History
and
2. John Sly, - "Stand To" No 99, published by the Western Front
Association;-
Educated at Heddon Court and Leys School and Clare College, Cambridge, 1913.
Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion 15 August 1914. Lieutenant 2 February 1915.
Attached to 2nd Battalion 10 April 1915. Killed at Givenchy when acting as
Machine-Gun Officer.
Captain John Vivian Nancarrow. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of George Bennett Nancarrow and Charlotte Alice Nancarrow, of
"Ravenscroft," Grove Hill, Middlesbrough. Killed 25 April 1915.
Aged 30.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Lieutenant Arnold Oughtred Vick. 11th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment, attached 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Richard William
Vick, J.P.; husband of Christine Vick, of Harlow, Reigate. Native of West
Hartlepool. Killed 27 September 1918. Aged 29.
Buried NAVES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
The Names of Capt John Vivian Nancarrow and Lieut Arnold Oughtred Vick on
the Leys School War Memorial.
(Photo : John Harding of The Leys School)
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