A large wooden board displayed in the south cloister of Bancroft’s School features the names of the ‘master and boys of the school’ who died in the First World War. The names are depicted in gold across a series of eight panels.
Find out more about some of the individuals featured on this memorial by selecting from one of the names below.
To view a complete list of every individual commemorated on this memorial, please click on the memorial inscription link above.
Biography available.
| Name | Regiment | Year of death |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Gilmour Boardman | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Alfred Hughes Brown | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1918 |
| Arthur Kerry Barratt | Royal Army Medical Corps | 1915 |
| Clifford Joseph Brooke Hunt | Canadian Infantry | 1916 |
| Edmund Douglas Noel | Essex Regiment | 1920 |
| Evelyn Harper | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1917 |
| Frank Reynolds | Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) | 1916 |
| Geoffrey Albert Pain | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | 1916 |
| George Thomas Webster | Machine Gun Corps | 1917 |
| Henry William Edgar Noel | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1917 |
| John Edwin Britton | Mercantile Marine | 1918 |
| John Sinclair Henwood | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1916 |
| Leslie Gordon Black | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve | 1916 |
| Oscar William Campbell | Royal Engineers | 1917 |
| Richard Edward Chardin | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1915 |
| Robert Leonard Argent | Royal Fusiliers | 1918 |
| Stacey Bates King | Honourable Artillery Company | 1916 |
| Stanley Benjamin Oakley | Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) | 1916 |
| Sydney Stranger Chaplin | Manchester Regiment | 1918 |
| Thomas Alfred Champ | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| Thomas Edward Davis | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Walter Vosper Jakins | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| William Thomas Black | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
