Oakham School Chapel and War Memorial

Oakham
Rutland
England

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Today Oakham School is a thriving public school with more than a thousand pupils, almost equally split between boys and girls. But in 1910, the roll call was only 105, all of them boys. So far fewer Old Oakhamians fought in the war than the number from its sister foundation, Uppingham School. There are 71 names on the panels at the entrance of Oakham's Memorial Chapel built as a tribute to those who died. Much of the information we have about them comes from Brian Needham who writes about the School's contribution here and also Michael Allbrook, himself an old boy of the school whose website is theygavetheirtoday.com. He points out that one name on the panels shouldn't be there. William H Barrett apparently survived the war and died in 1972. In other cases, where the boys come from Rutland, we have listed their home town or village. If they were pupils from another part of the country we have named their place of origin as simply Oakham School but mentioned their home town in the text.

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From Oakham School

John Ernest North

From Oakham School

Christopher Francis

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Claude Peregrine

From Oakham School

Edward Claude Bernard

From Oakham School

John Henry Heathcote

From Oakham School

From Burley on the Hill

Bertram James Forman

From Oakham School

Thomas Henry Fielder

From Oakham School

Lancelot John Austen (Jack)

From Oakham School

William Horace Lantsbery

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

William Reginald

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Edward Cartwright

Harry Percy Bright, MC and Bar

From Oakham School

Douglas Alexander

From Burley on the Hill

William Reginald

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Douglas Herbert Washington

From Oakham School

Frederick Howard

Francis Augustus

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

David Rhys Cadwgan

From Oakham School

Basil Stainforth

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Basil Fullelove West

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Donald Francis, DSO MC

From Lyddington

From Lyddington

Humphrey Kaye Bonney

Oliver Henry Cecil

PICKERING-CLARKE

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Geoffrey Lancelot

From Oakham School

Horace Leslie Cunningham

From Oakham School

Benjamin Stanley

From Oakham School

Eric Cross Arnold

From Oakham School

Donald Whitmore

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Charles Caldwell

Talbot Fitzroy Eden

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

Arthur Frederick

From Oakham School

George Holbrook Eric

From Oakham School

Herbert Alfred Vincent

From Oakham School

From Oakham School

WOODALL-MARSHALL

From Oakham School

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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme

More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.

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