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George Geoffrey Needham, 22 August 1915
George Geoffrey Needham was one of 14 Oundelians killed in the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.He was born in the Werneth area of Oldham near Manchester on 8th July 1895 and came up to School...
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John Egremont Thimbleby, 28 August 1915
John Egremont Thimbleby was born in Spilsby in Lincolnshire on 12th March 1889. He was the second son in the family and came to Oundle and Laxton House in September 1902, leaving in December 1906,...
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Robert Charles Bragg, 2 September 1915
2nd Lieutenant Robert Charles Bragg was born on 25th November 1892 in Adelaide Australia where his father was professor of mathematics and physics at Adelaide University. He came to Dryden House in May...
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Basil Montgomery Coates, 7 September 1915
Basil Montgomery Coates was killed south of Ypres by a sniper, whilst going to the aid of a wounded colleague.He was born on 16th September 1893 in Cambridge where his father was the bursar of Queens’...
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Noel Campbell Money, 7 September 1915
Noel Campbell Kyrle Money was a professional soldier, the third son of Colonel R E Money and born in India on 6th December 1882. He came to School House in 1897 and left in the summer of 1900, having...
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Russell Harry Louis Simmons, 25 September 1915
Russell Harry Louis Simmons was the third son of Mrs Stone and stepson of Dr J M Stone of Harwood near Maidenhead in Berkshire. He was born in London on 27th February 1895 and came up to Oundle –...
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Douglas William Armitage, 25 September 1915
Douglas William Armitage was born in Wolverhampton, the fourth son of Dr J A Armitage, on 8th February 1893. He came to Oundle in 1906 and left in 1912. In his last year he was Head of School as well...
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Joseph Baxter 26 September 1915
Joseph Baxter was the second Laxton School boy to be killed in the Great War. He was born on 1st September 1895 in Kettering, the son of Charles and Beatrice Baxter. He entered Laxton School in...
View ArticleEzra Howard Carter 27 September 1915
Ezra Howard Carter was born on 11th October 1893, the son of Ezra and Fanny Carter and lived at Lilford, a few miles from Oundle. He joined Laxton School in May 1907 and left in April 1909 sat the age...
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Lawrence Collier Hatch, 27 September 1915
Lawrence Collier Hatch was the second son of Dr and Mrs FH Hatch of Copsehill, Wimbledon. He was born in Johannesburg on 3rd November 1893 and came to School House at Oundle in January 1907, staying...
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Colin Holt Hooper, 28 September 1915
Colin Holt Hooper entered Dryden House in September 1907, aged 14. His parents lived in Blackheath in London. After leaving Oundle in 1911, he worked for Messrs R G Shaw and Co and was to have gone out...
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Harold Henry Walton, 13 October 1915
Captain Harold Henry Walton was the second son of Mr and Mrs Edmund Walton of the Manor House, Chilwell, near Nottingham. During the War, Chilwell became the site of National Shell Filling Factory No.6...
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Herbert Selwyn Scorer, 13 October 1915
Captain Herbert Selwyn Scorer was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Norton Scorer of Spilsby in Lincolnshire. He was born in Thorney, near Peterborough on 5th December 1885 and attended Barton School...
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Donald Ewen, 13 October 1915
Donald Ewen was the second son of Mr and Mrs TB Ewen of Blackwell, near Bromsgrove. Born in Edgbaston on 27 June 1887, he entered Sidney House at the age of 14 in 1901. At School, he was prominent on...
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Charles Shortland Gray, 13 October 1915
Charles Shortland Gray, like Herbert Scorer, was a Captain in the Lincolnshire Regiment when they were both killed at Loos on 13th October 1915. They advanced on the Hohenzollern Redoubt without...
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Robert Clive Harvey, 13 October 1915
Robert Clive Harvey, always known as Clive, was the third son of Colonel and Mrs R Harvey of Rothley, near Leicester and was born on 12th January 1896. He came to The Berrystead in January 1908 and...
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Joseph Hugh Turner Brocklebank, 3 November 1915
Joseph Hugh Turner Brocklebank was not killed at the Front but aboard the troopship HMS Mercian in the Mediterranean. The ship was heading for Gallipoli with 500 troopers from the Lincolnshire Yeomanry...
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Hugh James Pearson Hopkinson, 5 November 1915
Hugh James Pearson Hopkinson was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs FI Hopkinson of Hull and London. He was born in Devonshire on 7th July 1892.He came to Oundle and Sidney House in 1906 and left three years...
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John Armitage Hartley 19 December 1915
John Armitage Hartley was born in Halifax, Yorkshire in 1893, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Hartley. After private school in Hunstanton, he came up to Dryden House in 1908 for the...
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John Broadwood Atkinson 24 December 1915
John Broadwood Atkinson was the third son of Joseph and Anne Atkinson of Annaghmore, Portadown in Ireland. He was born in Summer Island House in the village of Loughgall in Northern Ireland on 1st...
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