This memorial on the Database of the Imperial War Museums: Oxford High School WW1 This plaque with the names of 80 former pupils who died in the First World War was erected in 1920 by old boys of the Oxford Boys' High School in George Street. The Oxford Times of 9 July 1920 (p. 11) gives a full report of the unveiling, which took place in the presence of the Mayor and members of the Corporation, school staff, and parents of the fallen. It states that “the memorial takes the form of a cast bronze tablet, the work of the Bromsgrove Guild, and erected by Messrs. Fletcher, Cranham-street.” There are also photographs of this plaque in the Oxford Journal Illustrated of 14 July 1920 (p. 12) and of 27 December 1922 (p. 4).
Below is a list of the 80 names on the school memorial. Some of the men have biographies on websites about the war memorials of colleges and churches in Oxford, and links to these are provided.
A number of the boys have been spotted on other war memorials in Oxford and beyond:
Thirteen churches in Oxford:
St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church • St Cross Church • St Ebbe's Church • St Giles's Church •
St Margaret's Church • St Matthew's Church • St Paul's Church• St Peter-in-the-East Church •
St Peter-le-Bailey Church • Ss Philip & James Church • Ss Mary & John (Cowley St John) Church •
Walton Street Methodist Chapel • Wesley Memorial Church
Seven other schools:
Abingdon School • Barnard Castle School • Dragon School • Central Boys' Elementary School, Oxford •
Magdalen College School • South Shields High School for Boys • Tonbridge School • Dublin High School
Seven Oxford colleges/halls:
Corpus Christi College • Jesus College • Pembroke College •St Catherine's Society (for unattached students) • St Edmund Hall • St John's College • Wadham College
Seven other memorials outside the city:
Abingdon • Bloxham • British Librarians memorial in the British Library • Canadian Virtual Memorial •
Deddington War Memorial • Eynsham War Memorial • Trinity Methodist Church, Southsea
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Column 1 Reginald A. ABRAMS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Henry D. ADDIS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Herbert BAKER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Godfrey A. BALLARD / CWGC Arthur H. BARTLETT / CWGC / City Honour Roll Cyril S. BENSON / CWGC / City Honour Roll Vernon L. BRAZIER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Ronald E. BRIGHT / CWGC / City Honour Roll Gerald W. BROOKE / CWGC / City Honour Roll Thomas B. BROWN / CWGC Ronald P. BULL / CWGC Charlie BUTLER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Frank BUTLER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Arthur D. CAVE / CWGC: William F. CHANDLER / No CWGC/ City Honour Roll Herbert CHIVERS / CWGC / Wreford CHIVERS / CWGC William T. CLARE CWGC Harold F. CLARKE / CWGC / City Honour Roll Wilfrid J. CLARKE / No CWGC / City Honour Roll |
Column Two Henry P. CLINCH / CWGC / City Honour Roll Wilfrid G. COGGINS / CWGC Bernard COOK / CWGC / City Honour Roll Vernon J. COOPER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Wilfrid A. DAVIS / CWGC Raymond DREW / CWGC / City Honour Roll Lionel G. EDENS / CWGC / City Honour Roll George FINNEY / CWGC / John H. GARE / CWGC / City Honour Roll Herbert J. GEE / CWGC / City Honour Roll Reginald GIBBARD / CWGC / City Honour Roll Arthur E. GILES / CWGC / City Honour Roll Edward V. GILES / CWGC / City Honour Roll Wilfrid C. GOLBY / CWGC / Sydney J. GRIFFIN / CWGC / City Honour Roll William H. GRIMSLEY / CWGC Sidney E. GRUBB / CWGC / City Honour Roll William H. HALL / CWGC / City Honour Roll Reginald S. HERBERT / CWGC / City Honour Roll William D. HOLIDAY / CWGC |
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Column Three Frederick F. HUNT / CWGC / City Honour Roll Ralph HUTCHINS / CWGC / City Honour Roll) Victor A.V.Z. JESSEL / CWGC / City Honour Roll) Robin JONES / CWGC / City Honour Roll Douglas B. KENT / CWGC Charles LAKIN / CWGC / City Honour Roll Frank H. LAWRENCE* / CWGC / City Honour Roll William G. LAWRENCE* / CWGC / City Honour Roll Gerald M. LE THICKE / CWGC Albert J. LUCAS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Norman MARTIN / No CWGC Edmund A. MAY / CWGC / City Honour Roll George E. MOCKRIDGE / CWGC / City Honour Roll Joseph H.C. MORRIS / CWGC Cecil R. NORWOOD / CWGC / City Honour Roll Frederick R. PARKER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Wilfrid H. PEARSON / CWGC / City Honour Roll William G.E. PHILLIPS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Percy L.S. PHIPPS / CWGC / City Honour Roll William H. POTTER / CWGC / City Honour Roll |
Column Four Arthur R. RICHARDS / CWGC Thomas P. SARGENT / CWGC John A. R. SHILLETO / CWGC / City Honour Roll Frederick T. SKINNER / CWGC / City Honour Roll Charles F. B. SMITH / CWGC Francis J. SMITH / CWGC Basil G. TAUNTON / CWGC Thomas THOMAS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Alfred H. TRUMAN / CWGC Sidney TWINING / CWGC / City Honour Roll Harry TYRRELL / CWGC / City Honour Roll Vernon W. VENABLES / CWGC / City Honour Roll Basil B. VINCENT / CWGC / City Honour Roll / Francis G. WALKLETT / No CWGC / City Honour Roll Ernest WALLING (Master) / ?CWGC Reginald C. WATTS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Stewart A. WHITE / CWGC Ernest E. WICKS / CWGC / City Honour Roll Francis T. WOODCOCK / CWGC / City Honour Roll Arthur J. WOOLDRIDGE / CWGC / City Honour Roll |
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* Brothers of Lawrence of Arabia
** Full biographies of the three boys who also attended Magdalen College School can be found in David Bebbington, Mister Brownrigg's Boys: Magdalen College and the Great War (Pen & Sword Military, 2014), namely: Victor A. V. Z. Jessel (pp. 331–344, under Zacharias Jessel), Wilfrid H. Pearson (pp. 256–265), and Thomas Thomas (pp. 300–303).
Below: The Boys' High School today is the History Faculty of the University of Oxford
