The following is a list with biographies of the 462 people who attended Malvern College and died due to the First World War. Altogether 2,833 are known to have served. There is also a corresponding page commemorating the 249 casualties in the Second World War.
There was not a month from August 1914 to November 1918 that an Old Malvernian did not become a casualty, with 6 killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos on the 25th September 1915 and 13 killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916.
The vast majority of casualties occurred in France and Belgium with 31 names recorded on the Menin Gate at Ypres, and 23 at Thiepval. There were also 23 casualties in Turkey due to the Gallipoli Campaign, and 16 in Iraq, including 2 near Kut.
They were in a wide range of regiments including 26 in the Royal Field Artillery, 13 in the Royal Engineers, 12 in the Worcestershire Regt, 11 in the Canadian Inf, 11 in the East Kent Regt (The Buffs), and 5 in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force.
Most were officers with 133 Captains, 126 2nd Lieutenants, 114 Lieutenants, 26 Majors, and 15 Lieutenant Colonels.
29 received the MC, 10 the DSO and 1 the DCM, as well as 3 knighthoods (the CB, CMG, and MVO).
The information below is based primarily on the memorial books held at Malvern College which Ian Quickfall, and now Paul Godsland, the Malvernian Society archivists, have arranged to be digitised with the official memorial web site still in development.
Further information was also obtained from 'The Malvern College Register 1865-1924' edited by H.G.C Salmon, 'The Malvernian' school magazine, 'A History of Malvern College 1865 to 1965' by Ralph Blumenau, and 'Malvern College: A 150th Anniversary Portrait' by Roy Allen.
Information was also obtained from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, the Unit War Diaries and Service Records held at the National Archives in Kew, and various online commemorative websites whose links have been provided.
The main battles have tried to be identified in which Old Malvernians died in. Many though were killed in the general attrition of Trench Warfare which is so vividly described in the book 'Nothing of Importance' by Bernard Adams.
Below is a map showing the locations of the 246 cemeteries where Old Malvernians are buried or commemorated in. The markers are coloured yellow for one casualty, orange for between 2 and 9, and red for 10 or more. The name of the cemetery and number of casualties can be seen by hovering over the marker, and the list of names seen by clicking on the marker. Their full biographies and pictures can be seen by clicking on 'Further Info'.
The records can be filtered and/or sorted by name, house, age, regiment, battle, date, place etc by clicking on the appropriate drop down box and then the 'Search' button below the map. The original memorial book entry can be seen by clicking on the person's picture.
Son of Frederick William and Helen Maud Furley (nee Haig), Sunbury, Canterbury. b. 1896.
Middle Shell - VI. School Prefect. XI Football; XL Cricket. Champion Athlete. Cadet Officer.
Oriel College, Oxford.
Great War, 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Batt. The Royal Scots.
'Under normal conditions he would have gone up to Oriel College, Oxford, but in July 1915 he obtained a commission in the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of The Royal Scots. He was sent to France in April 1916, and was for more than a year in the front line and fought all through the Battle of the Somme. On May 3rd, 1917, he was severely wounded at Monchy le Preux. He was mentioned in despatches (May 1917) and promoted Lieutenant in the following July.' Returning to France last March, he was reported missing on April 25th. The Army Council have since announced that they "were constrained to conclude" that he was killed in action on that date. He was an athlete of the true Public School type, generous, modest, unspoilt by success. As a Prefect he set himself a high standard, and gave of his best to his House and School. Of warm affections and full of good-will to all; he smiled his way through difficulties, and perhaps the only cloud which overcast the enjoyment of five happy years at Malvern was the fear that through weakness of eyesight he might be debarred from military service. Of his work in the war it is enough to say that he upheld to the full the traditions of the great regiment in which it was his pride to serve.' (Malvernian, Feb 1919).
Previously wounded 3rd May, 1917, at Monchy-le-Preux, while attached to 2nd Bn.