This roll of old boys of Dunstable Grammar School serving with the colours was published in the Christmas number of the school magazine. By then the war had claimed four of them.
ACHESON L., Lieut, RN Reserve
ACHESON S., Canadian Contingent
AYSHFORD H., Army Service Corps
BARGOTT L. J., Royal Engineers
BAKER R., Engineer Lieut, RN
BAKER C., Paymaster, RN
BALLARICE F. W., Lieut, 5th Beds
BENNING M. S., Lieut, Royal East Surrey - died in hospital at Boulogne from shrapnel wound
BENNING B. S., Lieut, Royal Marines in a special service field telegraph
BENNING A. C. S., Lieut, Beds Yeomanry
BENNING C. S., Lieut Commander, RN, submarine E5
BIRNE R., Artists Corps
BLANDFORD R. W., Suffolk Hussars
BROWN E., Beds Yeomanry
BURLEY, Public Schools
BURCH B., Seaforth Highlanders
BURNETT R., Capt, South Staffordshire
CROALL R. F., Public Schools
CECONI H. V., RFA, active service in France
CROSBY J. C., Canadian Contingent
COWLEY H. D., RAMC
COWLEY W. J., RAMC
CHAMBERS A. J., Beds Yeomanry
COCKLAND I., Beds Yeomanry
COCKERILL D. C., London Rifle Brigade
COCKERILL K. G., London Rifle Brigade
COUPEES T., Beds Yeomanry
CAVANAGH J., 5th Beds
CHATTERTON R.
CHAMBERLAIN F., RAMC
CUMBERLAND B. S., Capt, 5th Beds
DREW H. V., Queen's Royal West Surrey
DIXON V. W. H., Seaforth Highlanders in France
DOUGLAS K., Lieut, Royal Engineers
*ELGOOD W. N., Lieut, Royal Engineers
FABRICIUS E., Public Schools
FLEMONS P., Beds Yeomanry
GREEN N. B., Lieut, West Kent
GOSSE R. B., North Staffords
GREGORY F. F., RAMC
GUTTERIDGE R. C., Public Schools
GARSIDE A. I., RGA
HENDERSON V., Capt, West African Army
HENDERSON I. D., Lieut, 4th Seaforth Highlanders
HEALING J., Canadian Contingent
HUNTER A. J., London Scottish
HUNTER F. L., London Scottish
HYDER W. H., Civil Service Rifles
HILL W. D., Suffolk Hussars
HEALING K., Royal Bucks Hussars
HOLYOAKE R., Royal Flying Corps
HENDERSON J. B., Northants Yeomanry
JAQUES, Paymaster, RN
JONES C., Assistant Paymaster, RN - lost at sea, went down with HMS Hawke
JOHNSON H., Public Schools
JENKINS F. A. M. H., Artists Corps
JAMES A., West Kent Rifles
JOSEY P., Beds Yeomanry
KELLY J. C., Surgeon- Lieut, RN, HMS Tiger
KEY F. A., Transvaal Horse Artillery - killed in action in South Africa
KLOSS R. I., Artists Corps
LOCKHART A., Public Schools
LOCKHART N., applied for commission, RN
LEESE J. S., Manchester Regt, serving in Egypt
LOOKER P., Beds Yeomanry
LOOKER V., Beds Yeomanry
MARSHALL W. W., Capt, Staff Corps, Indian Army
MAWLEY R. C., New Zealand Mounted Rifles
MALLETT J., Lieut, South Staffordshire
OLIVER T., Herts Yeomanry
OLIVER C.., Beds Yeomanry
PHILLIPS C. B., Lieut, 7th Reserve Battalion, Royal Warwickshire
PALMER C. M., Kitchener's Army
REID A., Lieut, RAMC
RICHARDSON H., Somerset Light Infantry
SHAW F., 5th Beds
SHARP G., Lieut, RN, submarine C8
SEAVER D. S., Capt, RAMC in France
STONE S. I., Lieut, Public Schools
SHERVINTON T.
SHERVINTON W., 17th Lancers
SIMMS B., Beds Yeomanry
SIMMS K., Suffolk Yeomanry
SCRUBY C., Inns of Court OTC
SNEED R. E. P., Lieut, Berks Yeomanry
THRING F. W. C., Paymaster, RN, on special service to Intelligence Unit
THOMPSON G., ASC
THORNE H., Public Schools
TODD H., Beds Yeomanry
WYLDE J. G., Public Schools
WARREN L., City of London Rifles
WESTWOOD J. W., Seaforth Highlanders
WING A. N., 1st Herts RFA
WING F. E., 5th Beds
WEBB O. K., Queen's Rifles
WHITING J., Kensington Rifles
WEATHERILL T. H., Beds Yeomanry
WEATHERILL A. J., Beds Yeomanry
WHITE S., Beds Yeomanry
WITHLY F., 5th Beds
WILKINS F. C. S., Lieut, RFA
WILKINS J., Lieut, Royal Sussex
YOUNG T., Corpl, Mechanical Transport Column
FOTHERILL A. C., a Boer War veteran who was not accepted for active service through ill health, caught a chill which proved fatal while using his own car to ferry wounded men to hospital.
* Lieut Elgood was in Canada working as a construction, maintenance and location engineer for the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Pacific and Great Eastern Railways when he learned from a hunter who passed his camp that war had been declared. Returning to Vancouver, he found the first Canadian Expeditionary Force was complete and was offered a commission in the second that would be called upon much later. He chose instead to come back to England and was granted a commission in the Royal Engineers.
[Beds and Herts Saturday Telegraph, December 19th, 1914]