Served in the Armed Forces but not included in the University Roll of Service

In the 1922 edition of the College Record many entries have a section entitled “War Service”. Some of these men held war-time appointments which were not generally included in the Oxford University Roll of Service (OURoS) but a significant number (over 50) held positions which are normally included there.

It also became clear that not all who did serve in the Armed Forces completed the “War Service” section of the College Record. We have tried to identify these men by looking carefully at those who were born after 15 April 1867 and before 11 November 1900, but we were not wholly successful. For example, some men with common names may not have been identified as having Medal Cards, and entries in the National Archives and London Gazette do not give dates of birth to distinguish men with the same names. So our list is likely to be an underestimate of Magdalen men who served in the Armed Forces.

What follows is a list of Magdalen men whose should have been included in the OURoS (plus our reasons for saying this), but who were either overlooked or left out because they did not matriculate until after the beginning of the war. The date preceding each entry is the date of their matriculation.

1885    Allen, Percy Underhill,[1] Capt. Indian Labour Corps, Sept.1917–May 1918; British Labour Corps June 1918–Nov. 1919.

1887    Andrews, Arthur Westlake,[2] 2nd Lieutenant Royal Engineers.

1876    Arding, Alfred Charles,[3] Major 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Berks Regiment.

1919    Asche, Eric Thomas,[4] Gunner 2nd Battery, 1st Field Artillery Brigade (Australian), MM (5 Oct. 1918).

1881    Bainton, Arthur William,[5] Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve  (Anti-Aircraft division); Commissioner, Military Service Act (Civil Liabilities).

1901    Baker, Humphrey George Ambrose,[6] Fellow of Magdalen 1910– , Captain and Adjutant Labour Corps Dec. 1917–Sept. 1919.

1903    Bell, Revd Ralph,[7] Chaplain RN, 1916–19.

1891    Betton-Foster, Gerald Harman,[8] Captain Royal Garrison Artillery; Captain Essex Suffolk Regiment.

1921    Bickmore, Maurice Henry,[9] 2nd Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment.

1909    Bird, Geoffrey Paul,[10] Red Cross 1915–16; Foreign Office 1916–19.

1890    Boger, Alnod John,[11] 1914 Star, Red Cross Ambulance Unit No. 1 (Volunteer Driver); Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Ambulance Unit No. 1.

1916    Bothamley, Henry Louis,[12] 2nd Lieutenant 4th Royal Sussex Regiment attached to 13th Royal Sussex Regiment, Lieutenant 173rd Labour Corps attached to Australia Corps France.

1900    Bridgewater, Conyers,[13] 2nd Lieutenant 6th Inniskilling Dragoons France Jan.– July 1918.

1904    Briggs, William Gerald,[14] 16th Battalion London Regiment, Queens Westminster Rifles (31 May1917–18 Jan. 1918 discharged, unfit).

1909    Bury, Lionel Hawke,[15] Royal Naval Division.

1918    Bush, John Ashton,[16] Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery 4 April   1919.

1887    Chambers, Revd Arthur John,[17] YMCA Secretary at Suez, Abouker and Rayak (Syria) Feb. 1918–Oct. 1919.

1899    Comber, Frank Wandesford,[18] Major General List, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Middle East.

1877    Commeline, Revd Archibald Samuel,[19] Church Army in France.

(Did not matriculate) Cowley, Arthur Ernest,[20] Fellow of Magdalen 1902– , Sections Sanitaires Anglaises in the French Army.

1915    Davison, Wilburt Cornell,[21] Red Cross, England, France and Serbia, 1914–16; US Army (American Expeditionary Force), France 1917–19.

1919    De Peyer, Edward Esme Vivian,[22] Royal Engineers Signal Service Cadet, May 1918; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Oct. 1918.

1904    Downs, George Edward,[23] 2nd Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps.

1892    Eccles, Oreste,[24] Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps (1918–19).

1915    Ellison, Cuthbert Wynford,[25] Captain Royal Army Medical Corps.

1899    Everitt, Charles,[26] Special Brigade Royal Engineers, and Special Laboratory General Headquarters France 1916–19; Corporal Royal Engineers.

1900    Fabling, John Roy,[27] British Red Cross Chauffeur, France.

1876    Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie,[28] Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anti-Aircraft Corps.

1914    Fortescue, George Grenville,[29] Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

1919    Fraser, Ivan Kenneth,[30] 2nd Lieutenant South Wales Borderers.

1914    Gainsborough (Ginsburg) Richard (Rudolf),[31] Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, Russia 1919.

1901    Gallatly, James Marshall,[32] Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Naval Intelligence (Wireless) Mediterranean.

1910    George, Hugh Shaw,[33] 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers attached to 1st Sappers and Miners 1917–19.

1917    Glanfield, George Paterson,[34] 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps.

1910    Goldsworthy, Leonard James,[35] Captain Indian Army Reserve of Officers 20th Deccan Horse attached to16th Cavalry; Palestine.

1890    Gray, Herbert Edward,[36] Radiologist, 81 General Hospital, France 1917–19; Consulting Radiologist, Army of Occupation, Cologne 1919–20, Captain Royal Army Medical Corps.

1874    Harford, William Alfred,[37] Joined Remounts, Shirehampton, Oct. 1914; served there as Major during the war. Listed as Non-Collegiate in OURoS.

1892    Headlam, Cecil,[38] Military Censor of Press Cables at the Press Bureau 1915–18.

1919    Hickox, Edgar Herbert Cuthbert,[39] Private, Royal Engineers (signals) and London Regiment.

1896    Higgins, (Charles) Cecil Matthew Stanley,51 Major Special List.

1883    Hilton, Oscar,[40] 2nd Lieutenant, RAF 1918.

1913    Hoffman, Charles Gouverneur,[41] Field Ambulance Driver, section Sanitaire Harjes, July–Sept. 1915 attached to French Army; Cadet Royal Flying Corps, Sept 1917; commissioned April 1918; Flight instructor at Shrewsbury.

1919    Holdsworth, Romilly Lisle,[42] Dec. 1917–April 1919 as 2nd Lieutenant in 3rd and 6th Battalions The Rifle Brigade.

1889    Holmes, Joseph William Mounteney,[43] 2nd Lieutenant East Kent Regiment.

1914    Hughes, John David Ivor,[44] Red Cross Society, France 1915–19; a Quaker.

1918    Hume-Rothery, William,[45] Cadet Royal Military Academy Woolwich, 1916–17; resigned through ill health.

1919    Hunt, Herbert James,[46] Private, Sherwood Foresters, Jan. 1918–Jan. 1919.

1899    Jacomb, Edward,[47] Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1918–19.

1919    James, Francis Walter Tite,[48] Officer Cadet Royal Military Academy.

1895    Kelly, Thomas Herbert,[49] Lieutenant-Colonel Head of Intelligence Section, General Staff, NSW, Australia.

1918    Koerner, Edward Henry, French national, later naturalized. Corporal Royal Army Ordinance Corps in France 1915–18, Major in Royal Army Medical      Corps in World War Two.

1900    Leach, Frank Burton, [50] Indian Army Reserve of Officers Dec. 1917–April 1919 Captain 4/70th Burma Rifles.

1920    Lendon, Guy Austin,[51] Surgeon- Lieutenant Royal Australian Navy, 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron.

1896    Littleton, Alfred Joseph Brooke,[52] Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Tralair.

1900    Macdonald, Clive Lindsay,[53] Lieutenant Army Service Corps Motor Transport.

1887    Marshall, Arthur William Montague,[54] Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anti-Aircraft Corps.

1920    Maryon-Wilson, George Percy Maryon,[55] Lieutenant Grenadier Guards.

1919    Mitchell Oliver Worden,[56] Royal Naval Air Service Sept. 1916; Observer and Pilot.

1886    Moon, Revd Cecil Graham,[57] Chaplain British Expeditionary Force.

1905    Northrop, George Norton,[58] Major of Infantry; Asst Chief of Staff 88th Division; later of the 3rd Division in [US] Army of Occupation. In OURoS    under Non-Collegiate.

1921    O’Brien, Hon. Donough Edward Foster,[59] Captain Rifle Brigade, Aide-de-Camp to Viceroy of India 1920.

1892    Odling-Smee, George Smee,[60] 2nd Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps.

1908    Owen, Ralph Woodland,[61] American Red Cross in France, and with Army of Occupation.

1893    Palmer, Reginald Stuart,[62] Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers, France and Italy.

1889    Perkins, Revd Jocelyn Henry Temple,[63] YMCA in France, and Delegate of the British Committee of the Croix Rouge Francais.

1918    Phelps, John James Lecky,[64] 2nd Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery.

1892    Phelps, Joseph Harold,[65] 1915–17 British Red Cross Society serving with the French Army, Champagne and Verdun; 1917–18 director of Motor Launches, British Red Cross Society Mesopotamia.[66]

1917    Porritt, William Henry,[67] Lieutenant Labour Corps.

1908    Pyle, David Hunter MacAlpin,[68] Captain 29th Division, Meuse Argonne action; Headquarters 8th Army X Corps, Jan.–June 1919, attached to American Relief Adminstration with Inter-allied Mission at Trieste.

1898    Reynolds, Cecil Abbott,[69] Deputy Supt Herts. Police reserve, Sept. 1914– Aug. 1917; Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Aug. 1917–Feb. 1919.

1917    Robinson, Allen Vivian Godfrey Peart,[70] 5th Battalion Grenadier Guards.

1902    Ronald, Cuthbert Arthur,[71] 2nd Lieutenant Grenadier Guards.

c.1883 Sanford, Edward Charles Perceval,[72] Lieutenant General List – recruiting.

1881    Savage, Revd Edwin Sidney,[73] YMCA France and Commissioner for YMCA in Mediterranean area.

1922    Sheard, Terence,[74] Cobourg Heavy Battery, Canadian Army.

1900    Shiell, William George,[75] Interned at Ruhleben 1914–17; 2nd Lieutenant General List; Hist. Section Committee of Imperial Defence 1917–18; and Censor Calais, 1918.

1912    Simpson, Geoffrey Gibbon Trail,[76] France July 1915–June 1919, with YMCA (Motor Transport) France.

1906    Smith, Leonard,[77] Discharged from Royal Army Medical Corps after 9 days on medical grounds.

1910    Sunderland, James,[78] Aeroplane Inspector, Aeronautical Inspection Department; Private, 6th Royal Fusiliers; Cadet, RAF.

1888    Tapsfield, Revd Hugh Alexander,[79] 2nd Lieutenant Army Service Corps.

1890    Teesdale, Kenneth John Marmaduke,[80] Driver in Croix Rouge Francaise 1915–16; Ministry of Munitions (Allies and Foreign Supplies Branch 1916–20; Asst Controller 1919–20).

1921    Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Alfred Edmund Clayton,[81] Lieutenant Coldstream Guards.

1890    Thomas, Edward Aubrey,[82] Captain Brecknock Battalion South Wales Borderers.

1884    Thomson, Sir Courtauld Greenwood,[83] Colonel; British Red Cross Commissioner in France, 1914; Chief Commissioner for British Red Cross and Order of St John of Malta in Egypt, Italy, Macedonia, and Near East, 1915–19; attached to General Headquarters British Expeditionary Force, Egypt (1916), and Italy (1918).

1895    Thornton, Percy Cleeve,[84] Air Force.

1919    Vernon, Gerald Richard,[85] 2nd Lieutenant Inland Waterways and Docks Section.

1890    Whitfield, George,[86] Captain The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) 1914–19; Intelligence Officer.

1906    Wigan, Sir Roderick Grey,[87] Driver French Red Cross; 2nd Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps.

1887    Wilson, Herbert,[88] Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anti-Aircraft Corps.

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Total 89: 2 published in OURoS as non-collegiate, Harford and Northrop; the remaining 87 men had confirmed positions which allowed the inclusion of others, with the same position, in the OURoS.

25 matriculated after 1914 and so may not have been included in the OURoS under its own terms.

However, 62 who matriculated before the outbreak of war should have been included in the OURoS but were not, which means the total number on the Magdalen list should have been 6.7% greater[.  If the Magdalen figures are a random sample, and the same adjustment were made to the University figure  there would have been 15537 men on their list, in other words nearly 1000 names are missing.’

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[1] NA WO 339/121004.

[2] NA WO 374/1771.

[3] LG no. 30669 (3 May 1918) p. 5437.

[4] NA WO 372/23/74207.

[5] NA ADM 337/93/36.

[6] NA WO 339/124614.

[7] NA ADM 196/85/21.

[8] NA WO 372/7/123810.

[9] NA WO 339/109987.

[10] NA WO 372/2/150619.

[11] NA ADM 337/125/598 and WO 372/2/197545.

[12] NA WO 372/2/223394.

[13] NA WO 372/3/65135.

[14] NA WO 372/3/70131.

[15] NA ADM 339/1/5339.

[16] LG no. 31326 (2 May 1919), p. 5621.

[17] NA WO 372/4/69945.

[18] NA WO 372/4/220417, OETA: a period of British and French control over Arab-majority areas of

the former Ottoman Empire, during and following WWI.

[19] NA WO 372/4/221398.

[20] ‘Cowley, Sir Arthur Ernest (1861–1931)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford

University Press, 2004 [http://ezproxy.ouls.ox.ac.uk:2117/view/article/32598, accessed 27 Jan 2014]

and NA WO 472/5/54829.

[21] Davison, Wilburt Cornell, Papers 1881–1972, Duke University Medical Archives.

[22] NA WO 339/131020.

[23] LG no.30039 (27 April 1917), p. 4058.

[24] LCC Record of War Service, (London: LCC, 1922), Appendix p. 35.

[25] NA WO 374/22605.

[26] NA WO 372/6/240553.

[27] NA WO 372/7/5550.

[28] NA ADM 337/94/663.

[29] NA ADM 337/94/754.

[30] NA WO 372/7/151235.

[31] NA WO 372/7/185095.

[32] NA ADM 337/123/192.

[33] LG no. 30384 (16 November 1917), 11855.

[34] NA WO 339/132365.

[35] NA WO 372/8/52050.

[36] NA WO 372/8/107520.

[37] LG no. 28982 (20 November 1914), p. 9658; Appears in RoS as Non-Collegiate.

[38] Obituary The Times, no.46,831 (13 August 1934), p. 12; see also NA WO

372/9/114686.

[39] NA WO 372/9/171325.

[40] NA AIR 76/229/105.

[41] NA AIR 76/233/14 and AIR 79/1371/152028.

[42] NA WO 339/99012.

[43] LG no. 32621 (24 February 1922), p. 1684.

[44] NA WO 372/10/93502.

[45] NA WO 339/70872.

[46] NA WO 372/10/114230.

[47] NA ADM 337/127/16.

[48] NA WO 339/70866.

[49] Martha Rutledge, ‘Kelly, Thomas Herbert (1875–1948)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography,

National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly- thomas-herbert-6924/text12017, accessed 1 February 2014.

[50] NA WO 372/27/778.

[51] Navy List January 1919 p. 1889.

[52] NA ADM 337/125/428.

[53] LG no. 31163 (4 February 1919) p. 1895.

[54] NA ADM 337/93/556.

[55] NA WO 339/55145.

[56] NA AIR 76/351/120.

[57] NA WO 339/126064.

[58] Obituary, New York Times (1 August 1964) p. 21.

[59] NA WO372/15/21323.

[60] NA WO374/51140.

[61] The Princeton Alumni Weekly (May 1 1918) p. 669.

[62] NA WO 372/15/100791.

[63] NA WO 372/15/201809.

[64] NA WO 339/119926.

[65] NA WO 339/117311.

[66] Red Cross Record cards.

[67] NA WO 339/100964.

[68] Princeton Alumni Weekly (Dec. 15 1944) pp. 31–32.

[69] NA ADM 337/124/725.

[70] LG no. 30916(20 September 1918), pp. 11333–34.

[71] NA WO 374/58975.

[72] NA WO 339/87841.

[73] NA WO 372/17/176223.

[74] The Canadian Letters and Images Project http://archive-ca.com/page/831865/2012-12-04/http://www.canadianletters.ca/collectionsSoldier.php?collectionid=329&warid=3.

[75] NA WO 372/18/45844.

[76] NA WO 372/18/76768.

[77] Regtl. No. 40864 Army form 2065 dated 21.11.14.

[78] NA Air 76/490/149.

[79] NA WO 374/66986.

[80] NA WO 372/19/187895.

[81] LG no.31789 (20 February 1920), p. 2149.

[82] LG no. 28969 (10 November 1914), p. 9144.

[83] NA WO 339/138938.

[84] NA AIR 76/506/41.

[85] NA WO 374/70555.

[86] NA WO 339/46809.

[87] NA WO 372/21/152477.

[88] NA ADM 337/94/22.