War Memorials Elsewhere, - Clayesmore School, - Iwerne Minster, Dorset

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The War Memorial Window in the Chapel of Clayesmore School, Iwerne Minster (Dorset)
Photo : James McMillan (Clayesmore School)

There is a War Memorial chapel at Clayesmore School, Iwerne Minster (Dorset). The Chapel was built by staff, pupils and local craftspeople and was completed and dedicated in November 1956.
There is an attractive stained glass window in the building which commemorates the names of the 37 Old Clayesmorians who fell in in the First World War and 36 who lost their lives in the Second World War.

Two Old Boys of the school who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on this window.

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Captain Gilbert Davidson Pitt Eykyn. Royal Scots Regt. Attached (Adjutant) 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Rev. Pitt Eykyn; husband of Constance Eykyn. Served in the South African War. Killed 25 April 1915. Aged 33.
Commemorated on Panel 11, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(A biography of Captain Eykyn by Robert Coulson is provided on this website).

(Born on 22 Aug 1881 in France Lynch Parsonage, Gloucestershire only son of Rev Pitt and Charlotte Elizabeth (Davidson) Eykyn. Educated at Haileybury College 1895 and Clayesmore School. He married Emily Constance Norton on 28 Nov 1902 in Bombay Cathedral and had one son.
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1899, promoted Lieutenant 24 Dec 1901, transferred to the Indian Army for one year and then joined the Royal Scots on 4 Feb 1905 and was promoted Captain on 26 June 1914. He had served 11 years in India and in the South African War. Attached to the 4th Yorks, of which he had been Adjutant, he fell in their first engagement while leading the regiment in the storming of St Julien during the second battle of Ypres.)

Lieutenant Johnstone Erskine Galway Herbert. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 20.
Commemorated on Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
(A biography of Lieutenant Herbert by Robert Coulson is provided on this website).
Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) has also found out that Lieutenant Herbert was born 19 September 1896 in Kilburn, London, the son of George Stawell and Lydia Margaretta Herbert.

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