Shirburnians have a long tradition of remembering their own. At the east end of the School chapel is a memorial recording the names of the twelve Old Shirburnians who lost their lives in the South African War of 1899-1902. The names of those Old Shirburnians who fell in the First (approx. 221) and Second World Wars (approx. 242) are incised into the walls of the ante-chapel, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, and are also recorded in the Books of Remembrance.
We will remember them.
Click on a name to link to their page on Flickr (biographical information can be found at the bottom of each page):
First World War Roll of Honour
BENNETT, Maurice Porter │ CLARK, William Wallace Edmund Messenger │ ELLIOTT, Edward │ GIBBONS, John │ GUNNING, John Walter │ HALLIDAY, Charles Graham Rivers │ WARD, Eric Seth
Second World War Roll of Honour
ABEL, Richard John Frederick | ALLISON, George Edmund | AUSTIN, Ambrose Theodore Wentworth| BALDWIN, Christopher Melfort | BANNERMAN, Douglas Edward | BARKER, Anthony Oliver | BASS-THOMSON, James Edmund | BECHER, James Stewart | BURNETT, Walter Henry| CHAPMAN, Henry Charles Alfred | COWAN, Michael Harry Tennant | DUNN, James Raymond | EVANS, David | FERGUSON, Kenneth Francis | HANSELL, Richard Neville | HARRIS, John Stewart | INCHBALD, Anthony Ilbert | LANG, Edward James Morgan | MARKER, Eric Gerald | MARKS, Hugh John | MEREDITH, Kenneth Evans | MOFFAT-WILSON, Donald | MOLISON, William Strachan | MYLES, Thomas Picton | OLIVER, Peter Roderick | PHILLIPS, David Anthony Temple | PICK, Donald Bryan Pickering | RICE, William Terence | RICKETTS, Desmond Forbes | ROSS, Derek Colles | ROUSE, Trevor Hastings | RYAN, Anthony Richard Biddulph| SHERLEY-PRICE, Maurice Henry | TASKER, Anthony Leckonby Ashton | WHYTE, Gerald Athenry | WYLIE, William Jeffery Price | YEO, John Maurice Macfarlane
Lives Lost in Service (1919-1939, 1946 to date)
MACDONALD, John Donald | WILSON, Kenneth Gordon Wycliffe
See also:
Sherborne School roll of honour
Victoria Cross Recipients
Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
First World War (1914-1919)
Second World War (1939-1945)
History of Lyon House
For further information please contact the School Archivist
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