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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Benjamin James Carter | Seaforth Highlanders | 1915 |
| Albert Victor Porter | Essex Regiment | 1916 |
| Albert Wildash | Norfolk Regiment | 1916 |
| Alec John Grice Holt | Singapore Volunteer Rifles | 1915 |
| Alex Gilmour Boardman | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Alfred Hughes Brown | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1918 |
| Algernon Beale Wootton | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | 1915 |
| Allan George French | Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 1916 |
| Allan Rodger | London Regiment (London Scottish) | 1918 |
| Amyas Septimus Quirke | Machine Gun Corps | 1918 |
| Angus Roy Gunn | Royal Fusiliers | 1917 |
| Arnold Capel Batho | Middlesex Regiment | 1916 |
| Arthur Bryan Wright | The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | 1917 |
| Arthur Haddon Lilley | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1917 |
| Arthur Henry Felix Fletcher | 13th Hussars | 1917 |
| Arthur Henry William Hudson | King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) | 1916 |
| Arthur Herbert Thompson | London Regiment | 1916 |
| Arthur James Stiles | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| Arthur Justus Hill | Honourable Artillery Company | 1916 |
| Arthur Kerry Barratt | Royal Army Medical Corps | 1915 |
| Arthur Leslie Evans | Suffolk Regiment | 1916 |
| Arthur Rattray Meredith | Canadian Infantry | 1916 |
| Arthur William Ramsey | The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) | 1915 |
| Augustine Harry Mahr | Honourable Artillery Company | 1917 |
| Austin Campbell Dent | Royal Army Medical Corps | 1915 |
| Benjamin James Roberts | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1917 |
| Bertram John William Andrews | Royal Sussex Regiment | 1917 |
| Cecil Wykeham Lydall | Royal Navy | 1916 |
| Charles Duncan Knox | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| Charles Evans Thorp | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Charles Richard Knights | 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion | 1917 |
| Charles William Milne | Cameron Highlanders | 1915 |
| Clifford Joseph Brooke Hunt | Canadian Infantry | 1916 |
| Clifford Vernon Tee | Royal Garrison Artillery | 1918 |
| Cuthbert Hickman | Auckland Regiment N.Z.E.F. | 1918 |
| Donald Alfred Harnett | The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) | 1916 |
| Donald Ambrose | London Regiment | 1918 |
| Donald Arthur Payne | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1917 |
| Donald John Macintosh | Essex Regiment | 1918 |
| Donald Sowerby Salter | Royal Garrison Artillery | 1918 |
| Douglas Brown Shanks | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1915 |
| Douglas Hampden Beeching | London Regiment (London Scottish) | 1916 |
| Douglas Murray Cameron | Suffolk Regiment | 1916 |
| Douglas Tosetti | Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1918 |
| Edgar Evan Holt Phillips | Royal Fusiliers | 1917 |
| Edmund Douglas Noel | Essex Regiment | 1920 |
| Eric William Payne | Army Service Corps | 1917 |
| Ernest Mitchell Meredith | Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars | 1915 |
| Ernest Swanson | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1917 |
| Evan Charles Kilcoy Fraser Mackenzie | Mercantile Marine | 1917 |
| Evelyn Harper | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1917 |
| Francis Arthur Riggenbach | Essex Regiment | 1918 |
| Frank Guy Wright | The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | 1917 |
| Frank Lawson Matthews | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| Frank Meredith Parry | Hampshire Regiment | 1916 |
| Frank Reynolds | Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) | 1916 |
| Frederick Anthony Knights | Canadian Infantry | 1915 |
| Frederick Leaf Franklin | Northamptonshire Regiment | 1920 |
| Frederick Lionel Nash | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1915 |
| Frederick Louis Marchant | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Frederick Reith Campbell Bradford | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | 1916 |
| Frederick Stephen Boshell | Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1918 |
| Frederick Stewart Higson | Welsh Regiment | 1917 |
| Frederick Tom Underhill | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1915 |
| Frederick William Ellis | London Regiment (Kensingtons) | 1918 |
| Geoffrey Albert Pain | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | 1916 |
| George Edward Wright | Army Service Corps | 1918 |
| George Everett Cayford | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| George Frederick Teverson | London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) | 1916 |
| George Leslie Nicole | Honourable Artillery Company | 1917 |
| George Thomas Webster | Machine Gun Corps | 1917 |
| George William Swanson | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Gerald Roach | Royal Naval Air Service | 1917 |
| Gilbert Waterhouse | Essex Regiment | 1916 |
| Gordon William Acworth | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1917 |
| Guy Compton | Royal Sussex Regiment | 1917 |
| Harold Edward White | Royal Engineers | 1918 |
| Harold Stanley Underwood | Army Service Corps | 1918 |
| Harold Victor Young | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| Harry Augustus Deubert | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1917 |
| Harry Carter Markby | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1916 |
| Harry Douglas Blake | Royal Fusiliers | 1915 |
| Harry Vanse Huggins | Australian Infantry, A.I.F. | 1917 |
| Headley Stuart Payne | The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | 1919 |
| Henry Alfred Odell Carter | Canadian Infantry | 1917 |
| Henry William Edgar Noel | London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) | 1917 |
| Herbert Allen | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 1917 |
| Herbert Bellerby | Royal Flying Corps | 1916 |
| Herbert Charles Skinner | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1917 |
| Herbert Charles Williams | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1917 |
| Herbert Manico Nash | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1915 |
| Herbert Musgrove Beck | Royal Flying Corps | 1918 |
| Howard Walter Beeching | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1918 |
| Hubert Dickie Kidd | Cameron Highlanders | 1915 |
| Hubert Thorpe Wootton | Dorsetshire Regiment | 1918 |
| Ivor James Challis | Lancashire Fusiliers | 1918 |
| John Edgar Phillips | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| John Frederick Paramor | Essex Regiment | 1915 |
| John Gray | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1916 |
| John Howard Potter | Royal Engineers | 1916 |
| John Outram | Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | 1917 |
| John Sinclair Henwood | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1916 |
| John Stephen Hawkins | London Regiment | 1917 |
| John Walter Gooderham | Honourable Artillery Company | 1916 |
| Joseph Henry Matthews | Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1918 |
| Kenneth Neil Finlay | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Leonard Alfred Whillier | Suffolk Regiment | 1916 |
| Leonard George Hirst | Royal Engineers | 1918 |
| Leslie Gordon Black | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve | 1916 |
| Lewis Frederick Bartlett | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1915 |
| Lionel Trotter | Canadian Infantry | 1917 |
| Marsden Holt | Australian Infantry, A.I.F. | 1918 |
| Maurice Godfrey Wells | Royal Field Artillery | 1918 |
| Maurice Herbert Wood | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| Montague Cyril Castledine | Royal Fusiliers | 1915 |
| Montague Elphinstone | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| Norman Holt Phillips | Honourable Artillery Company | 1918 |
| Norman Lindsay Mackie | London Regiment (London Scottish) | 1915 |
| Oscar William Campbell | Royal Engineers | 1917 |
| Oscar William Clark | East Surrey Regiment | 1916 |
| Paxton Malaby Dent | Seaforth Highlanders | 1915 |
| Percy George Ovitts | Norfolk Regiment | 1915 |
| Percy Harold Chidgey | Royal Engineers | 1918 |
| Percy Heath Andrews | Royal Engineers | 1918 |
| Percy Lampard | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| Percy Montague Phillips | Yorkshire Regiment | 1916 |
| Percy Randolph Smith | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1916 |
| Raymond Conrad Murray Keefe | Manchester Regiment | 1918 |
| Raymond George Vincent | Canadian Infantry | 1917 |
| Rees John Davies | Royal Field Artillery | 1917 |
| Reginald Davies Hickson | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Reginald Frank Learr Owen | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Reginald George Box | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Reginald Gordon Hill | Royal Army Medical Corps | 1917 |
| Reginald Vivian Menhennitt | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1916 |
| Rex Compton | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
| Richard Edward Chardin | London Regiment (The Rangers) | 1915 |
| Robert Arthur Wagstaff | Machine Gun Corps | 1918 |
| Robert Leonard Argent | Royal Fusiliers | 1918 |
| Robert Stanley Warrison Wilson | Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) | 1917 |
| Robert Victor Vallancey | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Roy Melville Rowan | Middlesex Hussars | 1915 |
| Sidney James Seton | Royal Naval Reserve | 1915 |
| Stacey Bates King | Honourable Artillery Company | 1916 |
| Stuart Norman Shephard | Royal Flying Corps | 1918 |
| Sydney Stranger Chaplin | Manchester Regiment | 1918 |
| Thomas Alfred Champ | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| Thomas Edward Davies | Royal Army Service Corps | 1916 |
| Thomas Hilton Beatty | Middlesex Regiment | 1917 |
| Thomas Hugh Roper | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1917 |
| Thomas Walter Scott | Cambridgeshire Regiment | 1916 |
| Victor George Goodchild | Royal Air Force | 1918 |
| Walter Harold Pockett | Royal Field Artillery | 1918 |
| Walter Vosper Jakins | Royal Flying Corps | 1917 |
| Wilfred Fry | London Regiment | 1918 |
| Wilfred James Dobson | Canadian Infantry | 1916 |
| William Albert Holman | The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | 1918 |
| William Funston Haddock | London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) | 1916 |
| William Harold Dice | London Regiment (City of London Rifles) | 1917 |
| William Henry Peppiatt | London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) | 1915 |
| William John Weatherall Hemmans | Royal Fusiliers | 1916 |
| William Thomas Black | Essex Regiment | 1917 |
