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The Denstone College War Memorial.
(Photo : Berenice
Baynham)
The Denstone College War Memorial stands in the Longsdale Quadrangle to the south west of the College and represents St. George. The memorial was unveiled in 1925.
Adjacent to the School Chapel is the Roll of Honour in which the names of past pupils who lost their lives in both World Wars are engraved. 163 names are recorded for those who died in the First World War, and 101 names for those in the Second World War.
Amongst the names are two Officers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Berenice Baynham for permission to use her photographs of the War Memorial and the Roll of Honour for Denstone College.
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Lorenzo Alexander. CO 2nd Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Susan Alexander, of Erindale, Co.
Carlow; husband of Mrs. A. M. Alexander, of The Thatched Cottage, Northiam,
Sussex. Killed 14 May 1915. Aged 42.
Buried LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE.
(See also "Photos - A")
2nd Lieutenant Harold D'Arcy Champney. 12th Battalion (Teesside
Pioneers) Yorkshire Regiment. Eldest son of Col. F. D'Arcy Champney (late
4th Bn. Duke of Wellington's Regt.) and Mrs. Champney, of The Valley, Scarborough.
Educated at Denstone College, Staffordshire (member of O.T.C. 3 years, VI.
Form, Senior Prefect; Editor "Denstonian.") Balliol College, Oxon,
O.C.B., 1916. commissioned Jan., 1917. (From Ingolstadt, July, 1924.). Killed
29 April 1918. Aged 20.
Buried NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY
The Denstone College Roll of Honour.
(Photo : Berenice
Baynham)
Lt. Colonel Alexander's Name on the Denstone College Roll of Honour.
(Photo : Berenice
Baynham)
Lieutenant Champney's Name on the Denstone College Roll of Honour.
(Photo : Berenice
Baynham)
The Denstone College War Memorial.
(Photo : Berenice
Baynham)
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