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| Thread Topic: Stamford School Boer War Topic Originator: Nick McCarthy Post Date November 4, 2013 @ 11:33 AM |
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| Nick McCarthy |
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Greetings Listed below is the known names of those Stamford School boy who served during the Boer War. Those with * next to their names, were killed in action. Harold Vaughan Blackstone John Wheler Collington Francis Madensfield Davis George Henry Whitmore Griffiths William Ernest Guinness Augustus Charles Godfrey Henry Hay Charles Tristram Melville Hare George Ambrose Hare Frank Ernest Lowless * James MacDougall William Pike Osborne Samuel Robson George Herbert Seneca Steer Cecil Herbert Warren * George Ernest Warren Unveiling of a War Tablet The company then adjourned to the schoolroom, where the above tablet was unveiled. Dr Barnard said that nearly twenty old boys took part in the South African war either in the regular army, the Volunteers or the Yeomanry and out of that number they had to lament the death of two, in memory of whom that tablet had been erected. The Mayoress (Miss Knott) then unveiled the tablet, which bears the inscription: In memory of Cecil Herbert Warren, of the 28th Company Imperial Yeomanry, who died at Johannesburg of wounds, 11th Oct., 1900, aged 26; at school 1886-1892. Also of Frank Ernest Lowless, of the 10th Company Imperial Yeomanry, who died of fever at Naauwnpoort, 30th December, 1901, aged 21 years; at school 1894-1896. Erected by Stamford masters and boys. - The Stamfordian, Christmas Term 1903 Anyone with any information on those named above can contact me at nicholasjmccarthy@hotmail.com |
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