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Names "L" - "S" on the Sedbergh School First World War
Memorial
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The War Memorial for Sedbergh School consists of eight marble commemorative panels, set in the school's cloisters.
254 names of those who died in the First World War are recorded on four of the panels, of whom 4 were Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment. A further 4 panels record 194 names of those who lost their lives in the Second World War. Photographs of all of these panels can be found on the Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register.
A Roll
of Honour for those Old Boys of Sedbergh School who lost their lives in
the First World War has been compiled by the school. This Roll of Honour provides
biographies, with portrait photos, of some of these men. (However, the Roll
of Honour states that 256 Old Boys lost their lives, as opposed to the 254
listed in the Imperial War Museum's War
Memorials Register.)
A sobering statistic is that it is beieved that 1,260 Old Boys of the school
served in the First World War, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 of these men became
casualties.
2nd Lieutenant Stanley Fell Hutton. 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of James and Agnes Hutton, of Hunts Bank Cottage, Wistaston, Nantwich,
Cheshire. Died 11 April 1918. Aged 24.
Commemorated on Panel 4, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
The following additional biographical information is taken from Roberts Coulson's
Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Stanley Hutton was born at Willaston in Cheshire in 1894.
He first served in the ranks of the Notts and Derby regiment and after his
commission joined the 12th Battalion, Teeside Pioneers, at Moislains in early
November 1917. Later that same month this pioneer battalion were called into
front line action during bitter fighting at the Battle of Bourlon Wood.
In January and February of 1918 2nd Lt Hutton and the battalion were engaged
mainly with roadworks in the Mory area but when the German Spring Offensive
opened on March 21st they were pushed into the line at Hamlincourt.
The battalion fought on the retreat for ten days and when the onslaught was
finally halted they were at Rue de Bois.
In early April they were in action again as the Battle of the Lys opened and
on April 11th 1918 2nd Lt Stanley Fell Hutton was killed in action aged 24
in trenches close to Bac St Maur."
2nd Lieutenant Basil Spencer Jennings. 14th Battalion West Yorkshire
Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), attached to the 6th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment.
Son of Jonathan Sutcliffe Jennings and Hannah Mary, his wife, of Cononley
Hall, Keighley. Killed 7 November 1915. Aged 25.
Buried HILL 10 CEMETERY.
Captain Michael Day Wade Maude. 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 14 October 1917, Aged 27. Son of Lt. Col. W. W. Maude, of The Fleets,
Rylstone, younger brother of Captain Gerald William Edward Maude
(see below).
Buried in RYLSTONE (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD.
The following additional biographical information is taken from Roberts Coulson's
Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Michael Maude was born at Rylstone in Yorkshire on September 29th 1890.
A serving officer before the war he was with the 2nd Battalion when they crossed
to Zeebrugge on October 6th 1914. He took part in the bitter fighting of the
1st Battle of Ypres and also saw action on the Somme in the summer of 1916
and at Arras in April of 1917.
By now promoted to Captain, Michael Maude was attached to the 9th Battalion
and was in charge of “B”company as they prepared for action during
the Passchendaele offensive in September of 1917.
In a subsidiary action known as the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge the 9th
Battalion attacked towards Inverness Copse at 5.30 a.m. on September 20th.
Captain Maude was “severely wounded” in this action and passed
through the casualty clearing chain, finally dying of his wounds on October
14th 1917 at the age of 27 in the Military Hospital at Dover."
There are further biographical details on the Sedbergh
Roll of Honour.
Captain Gerald William Edward Maude. 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Born at Rylstone, Co. York, 20th November, 1888, elder son Lieut.-Col, William
Wade Maude, 4th West Yorkshire Militia, of Skipton-in-Craven.
Served in India with 1st Battn. during the Great War. Wounded in action at
Dakka, Afghanistan, 17th May, 1919.
Died at Peshawar of pneumonia, 5th November, 1919.
Commemorated on Face 1, DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE).
The following information is presented on Sedbergh
School's Roll of Honour;-
When he left Sedbergh in 1907, he went up to Oriel College, Oxford. He became
a regular soldier, and was in India with the 1st Yorkshire Regiment ( Green
Howards) for the duration of the war. In 1918, he was wounded in action by
a bullet which penetrated a lung near Fort Dekka in Baluchistan. He took three
months sick leave in Kashmir after which he resumed service. He was finally
due to return to England on 7 November 1919, but contracted pneumonia and
died on 5 November at the Military Hospital in Peshawar. He was 30. He was
survived by his widow and their son.
The Green Howards Gazette paid him the following tribute: "He was a soldier
in the truest sense of the word. His devotion to his regiment, his esprit
de corps was wonderful. He longed to see his battalion do something more than
peace soldiering and he saw it. There was no better disciplinarian, no one
more determined to uphold the traditions of the old regiment. He knew his
work thoroughly, and his courage and fearlessness on every occasion won for
him the utmost confidence of his men."
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