Malvern College First World War Casualty

Surgeon Edwin John Gostwyck Sargent

Photo of Edwin John Gostwyck Sargent
House and time at Malvern: No 5, 1908 - 1910.

Regiment: H. M. S. Topaze.
Died: 25 June 1918 aged 25 in India. Died in hospital at Bombay.
Cemetery: Kirkee 1914-18 Memorial India Face A

Son of W. G. Sargent, M.D., Padstow, Cornwall, b. 1893.
Middle Shell—Matriculation Class.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital; L.M.S.S.A. 1917.
Great War, Surgeon R.N.

'G. Sargent entered Malvern from The Priory School, in the first term of No. 5's tenure of its present house, and left early for St. Bartholomew's Hospital, after making a considerable mark in his short stay here. He inherited a love of the sea, and joined the Navy as Surgeon-Probationer in 1916, serving in succession in Camelia, Victory, Powerful and Topaze. He returned in June invalided, and died on the 25th. He will be remembered by his generation here as an independent spirit, who made his reputation as half-back in the first year of Rugby, and when he played a great game in the Final, though only 16. He has scarcely been down since 1910.' (Malvernian, Jul 1918).

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