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The Loughborough Grammar School War Memorial
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(Photo courtesy Loughborough Endowed Schools)
Loughborough Grammar School is one of the oldest schools in the country with a history stretching back over five hundred years.
By tradition, it was founded in 1495 by Thomas Burton, a prosperous wool merchant who set aside endowments in his will to provide income for Masses to be said for his soul by a chantry priest in All Saints' Parish Church, Loughborough: such priests often established schools and the one which burgeoned from Burton’s bequest evolved into the Grammar School.
The school War Memorial, which hangs within the school itself, commemorates 56 names from the First World War and 60 from the Second World War. One of the names is that of an Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Loughborough Grammar School for permission to use the photograph of the memorial.
2nd Lieutenant William Frederick Jelley, MC. 6th Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Charles William and Temperance Jelley, of 124,
Leopold St., Loughborough. Killed 2 November 1917. Aged 22.
Buried ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN.
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