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The plaque is in the college's chapel.





Below (left to right) - possibly a hart, a phoenix and an owl.









Patten Wilson, the designer of the Trinity Hall plaque, was a magazine and book illustrator, and also a sculptor and metalworker, who taught metalwork at the Royal College of Art and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patten_Wilson

www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/05...en-wilson-1868-1928/

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* My thanks to Trinity Hall Archives for locating the plaque, and then arranging access for me to the college's chapel.

Lieutenant Lancelot Oswald Talbot Baines, 1st East Lancashire Regiment. Died of disease at Heilbron, 4th March 1902.


....The death took place last week at Heilbron, from enteric, of Lieutenant L. O. T. Baines, of the 1st Lancashire Regiment. Mr Baines was formerly in residence at Trinty Hall, and twice competed against Oxford—once successfully—at throwing the hammer.
Cambridge Independent Press, Friday 14th March 1902

....Lieut. Lancelot O. Talbot Baines, 1st East Lancashire Regiment, who has died of enteric fever in Orange River Colony, changed his career in consequence of the outbreak of the war in South Africa. The son of Mr. L. T. Baines, of The Hall, Bawtry, he was educated at Cheltenham College, passing thence to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.His destination till almost the end of his University life was the Church. Soon after the war broke out he changed his views, and applied for a recommendation to the War Office for one of the University commissions, of which 25 were placed at the disposal of each of the two Vice-Chancellors (Oxford and Cambridge) for distribution among such undergraduates as they considered most suitable, morally and physically. Young Mr. Baines was one of the first to receive one of these commisions, and this was how he became a soldier. He was also a "Blue," having won the hammer- throwing on Queen's Ground.
Burnley Express, Saturday 15th March 1902

....The name of Lieut. L.O. T. Baines, 1st East Lancashire Regt., appears in the War Casualties list published recently, as having succumbed to enteric fever at Heilbron on the 4th inst. Lieut. Baines was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He won the hammer-throwing for the Light Blues at Queen's Club, in the inter-'Varsity Sports of 1898; and was second to J. D. Greenshields (Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford), at the Oxford and Cambridge sports in 1899. He would have been twenty-five years of age next July.
The Cheltenham Looker-On, Saturday 15th March 1902
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Lieutenant Noel Leonard Calvert, 6th Dragoon Guards. Killed in action at Lake Chrissie, 19th October 1900.


....On Saturday night the news of the death of Lieutenant Noel Calvert, of the 6th Dragoon Guards, in South Africa was announced. This young officer was a son of Mr John Calvert, of Irrewarra, and was educated at the Geelong Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. On leaving Cambridge he obtained a commission in the 6th Dragoons (Carabineers), and speedily joined his regiment now serving in South Africa, where he was most anxious to see active service. His desire was granted, and, like many other sons of Australia, he has fallen in the discharge of his duty. He was an exceptionally fine athlete, and greatly distinguished himself as an oarsman alike on Australian and English waters. In 1893 he stroked the Grammar School boat to victory, both in the Intercolonial and Public School boat race. He rowed in the Trinity Hall eight, when they were head of the Cambridge, and he rowed in last year's Cambridge eight. He was also a very fine swimmer, footballer, and polo player. His genial and manly temperament and straightforward conduct made him a general favorite, and his loss will be very much mourned by all who were associated with him. No doubt the Geelong Grammar School will erect some permanent memorial of Noel Calvert, the first of their sons to fall in the Queen's service.
The Geelong Advertiser, Monday 29th October 1900

....It will be learned with regret that Mr Noel Leonard Calvert, second son of Mr John Calvert, of Irrewarra, was killed in action against the Boers in South Africa near Bethel, during the advance of General French's column. The deceased was about 23 years of age. By all who knew him he was recognised as the finest young fellow one could come across, and his untimely demise at such an early age will be generally regretted. He was a member of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers).
The Colac Herald, Tuesday 30th October 1900


14096 Corporal Hubert Faunce De Laune, 47th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Company Imperial Yeomanry. Killed in action at Lindley, 30th May 1900.

FAUNCE DE LAUNE.—Killed in action, Lindley, South Africa, in 13th Batt. Imperial Yeomanry, third son of the late C. de L. Faunce de Laune, of Sharsted Court, Sittingbourne, Kent, aged 25.

....Mr. Hubert Faunce de Laune Killed in Action.—On Thursday morning last Mr. Faunce de Laune, of Sharsted Court, received a telegram conveying the melancholy intelligence that his brother Hubert, of the Duke of Cambridge's Own Special Corps, had been killed in action in South Africa. Mr. Hubert de Laune was a young man of singular amiability and nobleness of character, and the grief resulting from his death, so far from being confined to his own immediate family, will be acutely felt by every person in the parishes of Dodington and Newnham, with which he was so intimately connected.
The Whitstable Times & Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 16th June 1900
www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...-a-lindley-30-5-1900


Colonel George Hugh Gough, Staff. Died at Norval's Pont, 29th March 1900.

He's said to have committed suicide, after having been ordered home from South Africa, supposedly for disobeying an order.

From a programme of business in the House of Commons, on the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1900, which would have been before the news of Colonel Gough's death reached London:—

....Mr. MacNeill asked the Under Secretary of State for War whether Lord Methuen had sent home any communication with reference to the circumstances under which he ordered Colonel Gough to retire from the front; whether Colonel Gough was ordered home by Lord Methuen because he refused to obey an order of Lord Methuen's; and whether the promised inquiry into Colonel Gough's conduct would embrace an inquiry into Lord Methuen's conduct.
....Mr. Wyndham—Pending the inquiry which is to be held in Colonel Gough's case it should not, I think, be discussed by way of question and answer in this House. (Hear, hear.)
....Mr. MacNeill—I wish to ask the hon. gentleman if he declines to answer the question whether Colonel Gough disobeyed orders or not. (Cries of Order, order.)
....Mr. Wyndham—The answer I gave covers that question and any similar question which the hon. member may think fit to put. (Hear, hear.) An inquiry is going to be held in this case, and it would be most improper, in my opinion, to discuss any of the matters, essential or subsidiary, which are likely to come before that tribunal. (Ministerial cheers.)
....Mr. MacNeill—As a matter of fact, will Lord Methuen's conduct come before that tribunal?
....No answer was given. ....Mr. MacNeill asked whether the original communication, dated January 4, sent home by Sir Redvers Buller, who was then in chief command of the Army in South Africa fromLord Methuen respecting the reverse at Magersfontein on the 10th and 11th of December would be published; and what was the reason for withholding from the public a communication with reference to a matter of such general interest.
....Mr. Wyndham—For reasons which I stated to the hon. member on the 23rd inst. it is not intended to publish this communication.
The Morning Post, Friday 30th March 1900


....The "Daily News" correspondent, wiring from Bloomfontein on Friday, says:—To-day Colonel the Hon. George Gough, who died at Norval's Pont, was buried here with full military honours. Lord Roberts and other officers holding high commands followed the remains of Lord Wolseley's former private secretary to the grave. It was an impressive sight as the procession moved solemnly through the streets of Bloemfontein, the troops walking in a slow march, with arms reversed, and bands playing the Dead March. The coffin was covered with the Union Jack and wreaths of flowers. At the cemetery the trumpeters sounded the Last Post over the grave of the soldier whom all comrades honour. Colonel Gough, when a Major in the 14th Hussars, commanded a detachment of mounted infantry at Abu Klea, and was the first wounded in that fight sixteen years ago.
The Western Times, Tuesday 3rd April 1900


Corporal C R Holmes, Orange River Colony Provincial Police. No other information.


Captain St John Meyrick, 1st Gordon Highlanders. Killed in action at Doornkop, 30th May 1900.


....Another Shropshire county family is in mourning by the death of Captain St. John Charlton Meyrick, the second son of Sir Thomas and Lady Meyrick, of Apley Castle, Wellington. The deceased was captain in the Gordon Highlanders, and was killed in the action on Tuesday. He is brother to Colonel Meyrick, who is at the front commanding a regiment of Imperial Yeomanry. There are two other sons of Sir Thomas also at the front, serving in the Imperial Light Horse. Sir Thomas Meyrick is commanding the Shropshire Militia at Tipperary. He returned to Shropshire on Thursday. The greatest sympathy was expressed with the family in their bereavement.
The Cheshire Observer, Saturday 2nd June 1900

....Captain St. John Meyrick, of the Gordon Highlanders, who was killed while fighting with General Sir Ian Hamilton's force on Wednesday week, was the second son of Sir Thomas Meyrick, C.B. first Baronet, of Bush, Pembrokeshire. He was born on August 4, 1866, was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and entered the Gordon Highlanders from the Militia on December 29, 1886. He was an extra aide-de-camp to Lord Houghton (now the Earl of Crewe) when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from October, 1892, to July, 1895, and to Earl Cadogan as Viceroy from July, 1895, to October, 1897.
The Manchester Courier, Saturday 2nd June 1900
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Second Lieutenant Lionel Phillips Russell, 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment. Died of wounds, 20th December 1901.

....The dread suspense that has been hanging like a black cloud over Captain Russell and his family for the past few days has been ended, and their worst fears concerning young Lionel Philips confirmed. Trouble has pressed sorelv upon Captain and Mrs Russell of late years, and this fresh grief coming in such quick succession to the rest must serve to open afresh the yet unhealed wounds. Any words of condolence, however well expressed, and however genuinely intended, at such a time sound but empty and inadequate, therefore we shall not attempt them, but assure Captain Russell and his family that the entire population of Hawke's Bay and, indeed, of this colony, will grieve with them in their great sorrow. We feel that nothing can equal the silent sympathy of common grief too sacred for expression in mere formal words, and the knowledge that the populace extend this sympathy should prove a sustaining influence to the family in their loss. Captain Russell received the following cable on Saturday: "Holland, 19th December. Philip dangerously wounded. Has died. Holland is near Beginderlyn." Mr A. L. D. Fraser sent a special wire to the Premier yesterday asking lor information on the subject, and at eight o'clock last night he received the following reply: "I exceedingly regret to inform you that the Agent-General has confirmed the sad intelligence that Captain Russell's son Philip was dangerously wounded, and subsequently died of his wounds. I feel deeply indeed for Captain and Mrs Russell and their family in the loss of a good and brave son and brother, another life given for King and country. One trouble coming after another falls more heavily upon our friend, who, I am sure, has the svmpathv of all who know him and his.—R. J. Seddon." Lieutenant L. P. Russell was the third son of Captain Russell, and was only twenty four years of age. He was bright, cheerful, and of a very lovable disposition—frank and utterly unaffected, as became his father's son. He received his preliminary education at Wanganui College, finishing his course at Cambridge University, whence he returned to the colony in 1898. Not quite a year ago he was granted an Imperial commission and was attached as lieutenant to the West Yorkshire regiment, then serving in South Africa, and during the period intervening before his death had often looked down the wolfish throat of war. The young man has upheld the traditions of a race whose blood fires at the beat of a drum, and the soldier son of a soldier sire laid down his young life in the cause of his country and his King, in an enemy's land and with his head pillowed bv strangers. Of such mould are the bricks that make the walls of the British Empire bid defiance to her foes even to the uttermost fringe of the earth.
The Hastings Standard [New Zealand], Monday 30th December 1901
....The following cable has been received by the Premier touching the death of Captain Russell's son:—"Lieutenant Russell was twice wounded while leading 25 men against a vastly superior force of the enemy on December 19th. He died from the wounds the ext day."
Hawera & Normanby Star, Monday 13th January 1902


Second Lieutenant Philip Leslie Russell, 17th Lancers Killed in action at Modderfontein, 17th September 1901.

....The latest report received from Lieutenant-General Sir. J. D. French, the British commander in Cape Colony, regarding the severe reverse to a squadron of the 17th Lancers near Elands River Poort, to the westward of Tarkastad, states that one of the officers killed was Lieutenant Philip Leslie Russell, of Carngham, Victoria.
....[Lieutenant Russell belonged to the well-known Western District pastoralist family. He obtained a commission in the South Staffordshire Regiment at the beginning of the war. He was, however, taken prisoner in the operations before Ladysmith, and confined at Nooitgedacht, from which he was released by General Buller's forces. He later on was attached to the 17th Lancers, with which he was serving when he was killed.]
The Bendigo Advertiser, 23rd September 1901

....Second-Lieut. Philip Leslie Russell, the third officer of the 17th Lancers, who was killed in the recent fight at Elands River Poort, was 23 years of age, and was the youngest son of the late Hon. Philip Russell, of Carngham, near Ballarat, Victoria. He left Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to join the regiment in March of last year.
The Cambridge Independent Press, Friday 27th September 1901

....The following account of the fight at Elands River Poort, in which our fine young countryman, Lieutenant Philip Russell, youngest son of the late Hon. Philip Russell, of Carngham, met his death, will be read with feelings of great interest by the many friends of the family in this district. The following letter, written by Mr Douglas King from Steynsburg, Cape Colony, to Mrs James Russell, now in London, and forwarded to her by Colonel Haig, and an extract from a Cradock newspaper, gives all the particulars that we are likely to know of the sad event. It may be added that the poor fellow was killed instantaneously, and was buried with his fellow officers and the men of the squadron who fell with him, on the side of the ridge which they defended so nobly. ....Dear Mrs Russell,—
....I received your letter dated 27th September on my return here yesterday, after following up the commando (under Smuts) which attacked Sandeman’s squadron near Tarkastod last month. The enemy have been well punished on several occasions since that day, and are now being pursued in the country west of Beaufort West, where both food and water are scarce at this season.
....I enclose a cutting from the Cradock newspaper which gives a very fair account of what actually happened on the 17th of September.
....Your brother went out with the troop in the early morning which reconnoitred the Elands River Poort, and again, when the alarm was given, he went out as stated in the newspaper cutting.
....On return to camp, he was one of those who defended the kopje to the west of it, and preferred to die rather than surrender. By Boer prisoners, who we have captured since the action, we have been told of the determined stand made by the few who held out to the last. It was indeed a terrible fight. And I cannot tell you how much I, and all the officers of the regiment, deplore the loss of your gallant brother. A most capable soldier, a good sportsman. I personally miss him very much. It was because he was so reliable that I attached him to Captain Sandeman's squadron during the operations, as the latter had several detachments of local troops attached to his command. The latter, though excellent material, require leaders.
....I was with the squadron in the afternoon of the 16th September until dark; and then, on the next evening, I was there again after the fight. Although the enemy were barely in occupation of the camp for an hour, it was long enough to enable them to set fire to the tents and whatever things they did not carry off.
....I shall do my best to discover more details regarding the poor boy's death from the wounded. The latter are still at East London, and some at Cape Town. But I fear nearly every one who was on that fatal kopje was killed.
....This is merely a short note to go by this mail in reply to your letter. At the same time I beg to offer you our heartfelt sympathy in your great loss.
The Ballarat Star, Monday 13th January 1902


F. S. P. Weston - Frederick Shadwell Percy Weston, who was born at Richmond, Surrey, in the third quarter of 1877, and who died in 1900. Possibly 5284 Trooper Frederick Weston, 42nd (Hertfordshire) Company, 12th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, who died of disease at No 3 General Hospital on the 13th of August, 1900, and was buried at Kroonstad Old Cemetery.
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14681


Not commemorated on the Trinity Hall plaque - ....The "Banbury Guardian," of Thursday last, contains the following particulars of the late Colonel Arthur Edmund Thursby (cousin of Sir John O. S. Thursby. Bart.), whose untimely demise was recorded in Wednesday's issue of the "Express": —"We have, with great regret, to announce the addition of another local name to the already long list of those who from this neighbourhood have died in their country's cause at the seat of war. Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Thursby, of the 5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died on Thursday at Sutherland, Cape Colony, from enteric fever. He had been in charge of tbat town and a number of blockhouses. Colonel Thursby was educated at Wellington College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and had served for many years in the Militia. He first held a commission in the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, and afterwards in the Warwick Militia, in which he was gazetted a captain in April, 1884, and a substantative Major in July, 1898. He was the senior Major of his battalion, which was embodied for service from January to October, 1900, and for a second time from December last, when the deceased, who had been granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900, at once volunteered for active service. The deceased was well-known in this neighbourhood, and resided at Prior's Hardwick. He was a son of Mr. A. H. Thursby, of Calverlands, near Reading, and who formerly lived at Wormleighton. Colonel Thursby, who was forty-one years of age, married Miss Maud Cartwright, daughter of the late Colonel Henry Cartwright, of Eydon Hall. He left for South Africa with his regiment on the 16th of December, and had hardly landed when they were engaged in operations against the enemy. He took much interest in the Conservative cause in South Warwickshire, and has frequently presided at meetings of the Primrose League at Farnborough. He was well-known with the Warwickshire and neighbouring packs. He was a magistrate for the Southam Division, and his death was referred to at the meeting of the Southam Board of Guardians on Tuesday, when the chairman (Mr. W. T. Chamberlayne) moved a vote of condolence with the family. He stated Mrs. Thursby had a letter from her husband in the morning, and in the afternoon a telegram arrived announcing his death. The Rev. H. C. Phelps seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. Much sympathy has been expressed with Mrs. Thursby and her family of three in their sad bereavement. Deceased .was a most genial and open-hearted man, and his death throws a number of families in the neighbourhood into mourning. One of deceased's sisters married the Rev. Godfrey Littledale, the vicar of Chipping Norton, and he was a nephew of Captain Piers Thursby, of Broadwell, so well-known in the Heythrop country. Colonel Thursby had an uncle in the Guards who died defending the colours, we believe, at Inkerman."
Burnley Express, Saturday 15th March 1902
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* The photos of Baines, Meyrick, and Thursby are courtesy of Elmarie Malherbe and the War Museum of the Boer Republics.

Fantastic posts, Berenice. Many thanks

All I can say is Ditto to David's comments, fantastic pictures and writeup......

Mike

Berenice,
A most enjoyable read on a Sunday morning.
Many thanks for posting.
Also nice that the staff member allowed access etc.
Steve

Thank, David, Mike and Steve. I was very pleased at how much I found online for almost all the men named.

Here's a photo of Colonel Gough -
www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits...ussargeorgegough.htm