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The First World War Roll of Honour for Watford Grammar SchoolThe First World War Roll of Honour for Watford Grammar School
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Photo : Andrew Tatham of the Imperial War Museum's War Memorial Register

The Watford Grammar Schools grew from the Free School, a charity school for 60 pupils founded by Dame Elizabeth Fuller in 1704, on ground next to the parish churchyard in the centre of Watford. The schools became separate foundations for boys and girls in 1881 and the boys’ school moved to its present site in 1912.

The Waford Grammar School for Boys (the Watford Grammar School) is located at Rickmansworth Road in Watford, Hertfordshire. The Roll of Honour for Old Boys and Masters who lost their lives in the First World War consists of a brass plaque mounted in three sections on a wooden board. 97 names are commemorated on this Roll of Honour.

One Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.

2nd Lieutenant Alfred Charles Strugnell. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 July 1916.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"A Hampshire man, Alfred Strugnell was born in Aldershot in 1889.
He served as a private soldier early in the war with the 16th Lancers and rose to the rank of Sergeant with them.
On June 14th 1916 he received his commission “For distinguished conduct in the field” and joined with the 2nd Battalion at Corbie where they were in preparation for the Somme offensive.
July 1st 1916 at 7-30am saw 2nd Lt Strugnell and the 2nd Battalion leaving their trenches for an attack on the German held village of Montauban.
The battalion were in support of the 18th Kings and 19th Manchesters and incurred over two hundred casualties as they crossed no mans land to reach the German line.
2nd Lt Alfred Charles Strugnell was killed in this action at Montauban on July 1st 1916 aged 27 and his body lost he is remembered today on theThiepval Memorial to the Missing."

Watford Grammar School for BoysWatford Grammar School for Boys
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