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War
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The Beaumont College War Memorial (1)
Photo : SuzIgun
The Beaumont College War Memorial is located approximately 45 metres from the Northwest corner of the main building on the Beaumont Estate (formerly Beaumont College) on Burfield Rd, Old Windsor, Berkshire.
This memorial commemorates the former pupils of Beaumont College (a Catholic boys' school) who lost their lives in the First World War and the Second World War. The school closed in 1967, and is now a hotel.
The memorial commemorates 133 past pupils who lost their lives in the First World War, and 87 who lost their lives in the Second World War. A transcription of all the names can be found on the Imperial War Museum's website for War Memorials in the UK.
One Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial, together with his father who was also killed in the First World War.
2nd Lieutenant Herman Bysshe Bagshaw Bicknell. 1st Battalion the
Yorkshire Regiment, attached 1st Battalion East Yorks Regt. Son of Harriet
Frances Bicknell of Holme Park, Ashburton, S Devon and the late Captain Herman
Kentigern Bicknell who also fell. Killed 28 May 1918. Aged 19.
Commemorated on the SOISSONS MEMORIAL.
(Herman Bysshe Bagshaw Bicknell was known as "Basil Bicknell",
the name that appears on both the Mount St. Mary's College memorial, and the
Beaumont College War Memorial.)
Robert Coulson provides the following information on 2nd Lieutenant Bicknell
in his Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Herman Bicknell was born on January 16th 1899 at Northam in Devon.
He was commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment in September of 1917 and sailed
to France in April of 1918 attached to the 1st Battalion of the East Yorkshire
Regiment.
2nd Lt Herman Bysshe Bagshawe Bicknell was killed in action on May 28th 1918
at the age of 19 in fighting near Trigny.
The East Yorks were in danger of being encircled with machine gun and shrapnel
shells coming in from the front and the flanks. The action began at 7.00 a.m.
and by 4.00 p.m. the battalion had to withdraw so weak were their ranks.
2nd Lt Bicknell’s body was not recovered and he is remembered today
on the Soissons Memorial, which commemorates the missing of the Marne and
Aisne battles of 1918.
Herman Bicknell was a nephew of Captain
E G C Bagshawe, and the son of Harriet Frances Bicknell of Holme Park,
Ashburton, South Devon, and the late Captain Herman Kentigern Bicknell of
the Oxford and Bucks LI who had been killed a year earlier in Mesopotamia.
Captain Herman Kentigern Bicknell. 1st Battalion Oxford and Bucks
Light Infantry. Son of Herman Bicknell; husband of Harriet Frances Bicknell,
of 46, Lansdowne Rd., Notting Hill, London. His son Herman Bysshe Bagshaw
Bicknell also fell. Killed 24 July 1917. Aged 44.
Buried BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY.
The
Beaumont College War Memorial (2)
Photo : SuzIgun
The names of both 2nd Lieutenant Bicknell and his father, Captain Bicknell,
are commemorated on the War Memorial for Digby Stuart College, Roehampton
(London);-
http://www.iwm.org.uk_www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search?query=digby%20stuart&items_per_page=10&page=4
and
http://www.iwm.org.uk_www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search?query=digby%20stuart&items_per_page=10&page=7
The memorial consists of plaques commemorating 288 men and women who were
relatives of the nuns and children attending the Society of the Sacred Heart
Convent school, which was located on the Digby Stuart College campus of the
current university.
Ref. http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/1378/0/ww1-soldiers-honoured-at-roehampton-memorial
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