HONOURING THE BRAVE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 2

HONOURING THE BRAVE.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE AND THE W A U. The honourable part shared i>y Christ's College in the present world struggle was illustrated to a small ex tent at tho College prizc-giring ceremony last evening, by the reading by the headmaster (Mr G. E. Blanch) of a lengthy list of Old Boys who have fallen, and another list of those who havo won military distinctions. During the reading of the of the .fallen, those present slood as a mark "of rcspcct. following are ttio names of those Old Hoys wiio have given thoii' Jivos for King and country :— Arthur Ernest Jiiverard Bourne, James Bayntun Starky, 'Cyril Blakency, Walter Geoffrey Thomas, Edward Harris, Kenneth Dunoan Ambrose, Edward 13ourehier Aitkc-n, Fergus .Ferguson, John Gricrson Foster, Francis Clirc Ramsden Upton, Joseph Cowie Nichols, William McCleish Durant, Christopher Carrington, Gordon Harrison Lamer, Gilbert Hamilton McHnffie, John Dosborough Bowden, Edmund Boulnois, Arelnoald Gowor Burns, Percy Jameson, Ernest Cresswell Relmore', "Walter Leslie Taylor, Harry Brian Fl-tcher, Alfred VVedderburn Bishop, xiiehard Lucicn Gilbert Fleming, Gascoigne Cccil Greenwood, Frederick Andrew Anderson, Duncan Buchanan Macfarlane, Arthur Winkworth Nappur, John Chute Ellis, Charles Harry Morton, Lincoln McDonald Vincent, Nigel Francis Tavender, Thomas Strickland Field, ! Donald Mac'donald, Joseph Ward Rut- J ledge, Richard Cliv-e Strachey, Roland Wallace Guy, Guy Spencer Bryan- j Brtwn, Kenelm Arthur Wallis, Frederick ' George Andrews, Edward Wynne Oswald Mark Norris';..Francis Leslie Sapsford, James Home Aitken, Robert .Richards, lan Patrick Campbell, Kenneth Gould, John William Turton Ross, Keeloy Selwyn Jameson, Charles Froderick Dillworth Fox, Jack i Mervyn Deacon. John Stuart Glen, Stephen Radcliffe Archer, Hugh MacI pherson Ross, Lewis Ma tin as, Vincent Fosbery Nancarrow, Guy Stanley Overtoil, Percy John Overton, Francis Davison, William John Mansell, Lanco Nigel Haines, Antony HJugh Hanmer, Frederic Maxwell Way, Francis Benjamin Hart Guinness, Frederic Victorßyrch, Cyril Hayter, David Godfrey, Rupert Jennings Thomas, John Alexander Huntley Holmes, Claude Gladstone Robinson, Walter Harry Nichols, Eric Nflfton Thompson, Edward Guise Brittan, James Ogilvie-Granfc, Earl of Seafield, Ivor Douglas Scott Orbell, Cyril Haynes Ballantyne, Thomas Flint York, Edwin Hutton Lane, Isaac Charles Gosset, Norman Chambers Hai~ris. George Oscar Alan Gonld, Thomas George Airey Richardson, Roy Percival Herman, George Alastair SinclairThomson, Horace Lang, Edward Arthur Craig, Septimus Evelyn Wright, George Augustus King. MeKenzi© Gibson, Arthur Grattan Guinness, Leonard Walter Blunden, Francis Foster Cobliam. David Allan Neil Kennedy Mackenzie, Pearcc Harman Way, Paul Studholme Barker, Harold Macmillan Harrison, Thomas Cecil Innes Farley Gerald James Charles Harrison, James Wilfred Crichton, Guy Blundell Seymour, Frederic Leslie Kimbell, Victor I Rogers. Mr Blanch also read the following j list of Old Boys who have won military ' distinctions—only a few, he said, of the total number who had distinguished themselves: — Military Crosses: Major Acland, C.M.G., Lieutenant Bristol, Lieutenant Burdon, Lieutenant C. E., Carrington, Captain Cotterill, Major Dobson, Captain Free, Captain Harper, Captain Kemp, Lieutenant Manning, Captain Merton, Lieutenant Murchison, Captain Nelson, Gaptain Orbell, "Colonel Stitt, Lieutenant Upton. D.5.0.: Major Acton-Adamß, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Cook, Colonel Corfe, Major Hutton, Colonel King, Captain Lindsay, Captain, Murrav, Major Victor Rogers, Major Studholme. One of the most harrowing discoveries after the Halifax explosion ivas the bodies of 200 children in the ruins of Dartmouth School. Of the 550 boys and girls who entered certain schools in Halifax on the dav of the disaster, only sevjji are known to have escaped with their lives. In the Protestant Orphans' Home the matron and every chila were killed.