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Oswestry Catholic School Our Lady & St Oswald’s Catholic Primary, Upper Brook Street, Oswestry
Built in 1890 for 90 mixed pupils
Lance Corporal 06562 Charles H Walker, 21 Service Coy Army Ordnance Corps.
Oswestry Council School
Albert Road Board School Oswestry Erected in 1880 name changed in 1905 to Public Elementary School.
Private 72682 Francis H (Harold) Carless, 56 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Private 34304 Thomas E Jones, 1/4 Bn Loyal North Lancashire.
Private 3813 John A Wynne, 1/15 Bn London Regiment Civil Service Rifles,
Temporary Lieutenant Harold N (Nicholson) Lewis, 17 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers. His mother and aunt were school teachers. His aunt would go on to be head of infants at Oswestry Council School. His mother, by 1911, had moved to Helsby where she was headmistress at Runcorn County School. Harold is also commemorated on the school’s Roll of Honour, the school is now Helsby High School.
Boys Modern School, Oswestry
Captain John M (Morris) Owen, 2 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Oswestry High School
Lieutenant Herbert Parsons, 10 Bn West Yorkshire. Rgt. (Prince of Wales’s Own).
Oswestry Grammar School Founded in 1407 by David Holbache link to Oswestry School Web Site
memorial Window – Llangollen Advertizer 6 Dec 1918 – Report of dedication by Bishop of St Asaph
see Clifton College for former Head Master at Oswestry was an assistant master at Clifton
Private 204284 Henry M Bull, 10 Bn Worcestershire Regiment.
Second Lieutenant George Hughes, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Charles H Hughes, 14 Bn Welsh Regiment.
Second Lieutenant Ferdinand L Hughes, 25 Bn Machine Gun Corps.
Lance Corporal 23734 Trevor K Jenkins, 11 Bn Suffolk Regiment.
Private 72682 Francis H Carless, 56 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Lieutenant, Philip E Sharples, 9 Bn York and Lancaster Regiment. Step son of Oswestry Grammar Schoolmaster Alfred Cawood.
Private 2736 GH Douglas Davies, Shropshire Yeomanry 3/1 att. 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment.
Lieutenant Thomas R Davies. Royal Navy Reserve HM Yacht Conqueror II.
Private 15347 Geoffrey Davies, 10 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Also Morda school his father a school master at Morda and Gobowen.
Second Lieutenant James R Whittaker, 6 Bn King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Private 44076 John W Whitfield, 2/8 Bn Worcestershire Regiment,
Chief Mate Mercantile Marine Barnard C Spaull, SS Royal Edward. His brother Frank (d 1903) also attended.
Private 19723 John William Dovaston, West Felton War Memorial
Oswestry National School, Welsh Walls, Oswestry
National Scool on Welsh Walls circa 1905. (David Owen)
The school opened in 1841 and first catered for 220 boys, 180 girls and 150 infants, with a residence for the Headmaster. Built by local builder, James Vaughan of Beatrice Street, to plans of Thomas Penson Jnr of Willow Street, on land that belonged to Colonel Gatacre. There was a residence for the headmaster, but as further teaching accommodation as required it was later converted into classrooms.
Lance Corporal 13873 Percy W Miner, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Percy’s wife, Margaret, was an assistant teacher at the National School in Oswestry
OUNDLE SCHOOL, Northamptonshire
PHOTOS of memorial on SHARPLES & LEE Files
War Memorial – Oundle School War Memorial
British Public Schools War Memorials link to British Public Schools War Memorials – Oundle
Lieutenant, Philip E (Edmund) Sharples, 9 Bn York and Lancaster Regiment.
Captain Audley AD (Andrew Dowell) Lee, 9 Bn Leicestershire Regiment.
Oundle School War Memorial. (Oundle School)
War Memorial – Oundle School War Memorial
British Public Schools War Memorials link to British Public Schools War Memorials – Oundle
Lieutenant, Philip E (Edmund) Sharples, 9 Bn York and Lancaster Regiment.
Captain Audley AD (Andrew Dowell) Lee, 9 Bn Leicestershire Regiment.
Oxford University
ORIEL COLLEGE, Oxford
Captain Herbert MB Lawford, 9 Bn Royal Fusiliers (City of London Rgt). Also Winchester & Moorland House Preparatory School at Heswall
see also
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