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The
Winchester College War Cloister - 1
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Danger Powers and licensed for reuse under this Creative
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The
Winchester College War Cloister - 2
Photo : B Wood of the War
Memorials On Line website
Winchester College is an independent boarding school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years. It is the oldest of the original seven English public schools defined by the Clarendon Commission and regulated by the Public Schools Act 1868.
Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. Past pupils of the school are known as Wykehamists.
2488 members of the Winchester College community served in the
armed forces during the First World War, of whom 514 lost their lives, serving
predominantly in the army. Those who died are commemorated in the War Cloister,
the war memorial at Winchester College.
In the cloister are sixteen tablets commemorating those who lost their lives
in the First World War, arranged in pairs, and headed by the year in which
the fallen came to Winchester. These are are divided by tablets with the names
of battles or campaigns.
The website Winchester
College at War provides biographies of all those commemrated in the Cloisters.
Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist, has kindly allowed us to use this information.
4 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated in the Winchester College Cloisters.
Lieutenant Norman Martin Bruce. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of John and Florence Emma Bruce, of Hill Crest, Whitby, Yorks. Educated
at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, and just about to be called to the
Bar. Killed 7 August 1915. Aged 25.
Commemorated Panel 55 to 58, HELLES MEMORIAL.
Biographical information on Lieutenant Bruce, with a photo, is provided on
the Winchester
College at War website. THis information is also shown on the Yorkshire
Regiment Remembrance website courtesy of Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist.
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Colborne Graham. 2nd Battalion, attached 9th
Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Christopher Colborne Graham and Mary
Johnstone Graham, of Oriel House, Scarborough. Died 1 October 1917. Aged 29.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
Biographical information on Lieutenant Graham, with a photo, is provided on
the Winchester
College at War website. This information is also shown on the Yorkshire
Regiment Remembrance website courtesy of Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist.
Captain Lawrence Peel. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Born at
Clitheroe 18 September 1884, 3rd son of William Peel, J P, of Knowlmere Manor,
Yorkshire. Husband of the Hon. Mrs. L. Peel (now the Hon. Mrs. Martin, of
The Brand, Loughborough, Leicestershire).
Killed 23/24 October 1914 whilst leading his cycle company in a night attack
near Ypres. Mentioned in Despatches. Aged 30.
Commemorated on Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Biographical information on Captain Peel, with a photo, is provided on the
Winchester
College at War website. THis information is also shown on the Yorkshire
Regiment Remembrance website courtesy of Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist.
2nd Lieutenant Eric George Wellesley. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 21 December 1915.
Commemorated Panel 4, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
Biographical information on Lieutenant Wellesley, with a photo, is provided
on the Winchester
College at War website.
information is also shown on the Yorkshire
Regiment Remembrance website with biographical information provided by
John Sly.
Commemorative
Panels, Pupils entering Winchester in 1904 - 1910, in the Winchester College
War Cloister
Photo : Mark Newton of the Imperial War Museum's War
Memorials Register website
Commemorative
Panels, Pupils entering Winchester in 1911 - later, in the Winchester College
War Cloister
Photo : Mark Newton of the Imperial War Museum's War
Memorials Register website
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