Durrant, William Blencowe Wells, only son of Frederick Chester Wells Durrant, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, Attorney-General of the Bahamas, West Indies, by Gertrude, daughter of William Blencowe, of Brackley, Northants; b. May 4, 1894; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1908; left (with Triplett) July 1913; Magd. Coll. Camb., exhibitioner, matric. Michaelmas 1913; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. (Reserve) Rifle Brigade Nov. 1, 1914; went out to the western front in March 1915 and was attached to the 2nd Batt.; killed in action near Ypres May 8, 1915; unm.
East, Allred Tomlin, only son of Sir Alfred East, R. A., of Hampstead, President of the Royal Society of British Artists, by Annie, daughter of Henry Heath, of High Wycombe, Bucks; b. July 13, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left April 1895; became an engineer; A. M. I. C. E. Dec. 3, 1907; special assist. engineer to the Bombay Municipality Waterworks; enlisted in the Indian Marines at Bombay at the outbreak of Great War l; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army (Reserve of Officers) 1915; was attached 17th Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners in July 1915, and left Bombay with the Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia in the following month; d. Dec. 25, 1915, of wounds received in action at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, Dec. 18, 1915; unm.
Edwardes, Thomas, son of the Rev. George Edwardes, Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, by Ethel Mary, daughter of Frederic Lassetter, of Sydney, Australia; b. Feb. 17, 1897; adm. April 26, 1912 (H); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. Aug. 4, 1915; Lieut. July 1917; went out to the western front in Jan. 1917; killed in action at Steenwerke, near Ypres, April 12, 1918; unm.
Edwards, Colin Hyde, youngest son of Frederick William Hyde Edwards, of Westminster, by Julia Annie, daughter of James Arthur Humphrey, of Addlestone, Surrey; b. Jan. 25, 1897; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left Easter 1911, and went to Bradfield Coll.; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Surrey Regt. May 12, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; reported missing May 8, 1917; d. May 22, 1917, a prisoner of war in the War Hospital of Shelotille, Douai, of wounds received near Fresnoy; unm.
Estall, Arthur Cecil, only son of Thomas Estall, of Kensington, by Emily, daughter of George Tilly, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey; b. Oct. 3, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left July 1902; readm. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; became a clerk in the Bank of England and subsequently went into the bill broking business; joined the H. A. C. in 1909, and was promoted Corporal 1914; went out to the western front in Sept. 1914 and was invalided home in Jan. 1915; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. March 22, 1915; Lieut. Sept. 16, 1915; Capt. May 2, 1916; returned to the front Sept. 18, 1916; d. Aug. 8, 1917, at the 7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action, north of Ypres, Aug. 6, 1917; in 1935 his mother gave £1000 to the War Memorial Fund, the interest to be used in assisting in the education of boys at the school; unm.
Eyre, Gerard Layton Phipps, eldest son of Layton Eyre, of Hampstead, by Louisa, daughter ofJohn Forbes Moir, of Aberdeen; a nephew of Charles Lewis Eyre (q.v.); b. Oct. 5, 1890; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (G); left July 1908; Lieut. 59th (2nd North Midland) Div. R. F. A. June 1, 1916; served on the western front from 1917 until he was gassed near Monchy in April 1918; discharged as permanently unfit July 1, 1919; d. from the effects of gas-poisoning May 4, 1921.
Faire, Eric Leslie, brother of Washington Morley Faire (q.v.); b. Sept. 30, 1893; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (G); left Easter 1909; went to Lausanne, Switzerland, for the purpose of studying languages; enlisted in 25th (Co. of London) Cyclist Batt. the London Regt. at the outbreak of World War I; went out to the western front inJuly 1916; acted as Interpreter for his own Batt. for a short time, but was afterwards transferred to the 9th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles); killed in action at Maurel Oct. 8, 1916; unm.
Faulkner, Eric William Scarlett, elder son of William Bowler Faulkner, of New Malden, by Louisa, daughter of James Scarlett, of Hanworth Park, Middlesex; b. Oct. 15, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); non-resident K.S. 1913; joint Mure Scholar 1915; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1916; enlisted in the 5th (City of London) Batt. London Regt. (London Rifle Brigade) Oct. 20, 1916; went out to the western front Nov. 7, 1917, where he joined the 2nd Batt., and early in 1918 was transferred to the 28th Batt. (Artists' Rifles); d. July 26, 1918, at the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Dovelleris of wounds received in action at Aveling Wood, Englebelmer, near Albert, July 24, 1918; unm.
Featherstone, Reginald Benjamin, b. Nov. 28, 1881; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left Dec. 1898; 2nd Lieut. Devonshire Regt. from the Militia Dec. 4, 1901; Lieut. Dec. 7, 1904; Adjutant (T. F.) Nov. 18, 1909 - Nov. 17, 1912; Capt. Devonshire Regt. Oct. 3, 1914; served in the S. African War 1902; killed in action Dec. 18, 1914.
Ferguson, John White, second son of John Ferguson, of Regent's Park, by Katherine Pickersgill; b. May 13, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; left July 1908; apprenticed to his father in the shipbuilding trade 1908; Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Clyde Div.) April 2, 1913; served in the Antwerp Expedition Oct. 1914; D. C. M. 1915; attached to the Hood Batt. R. N. R. in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force March 1915; killed in action near Krithia, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, June 7, 1915; unm.