TRINITY COLLEGE MCMXXXIX-MCMXLV PRO MURO ERANT NOBIS TAM IN NOCTE QUAM IN DIE They were a wall unto us both by night and day. (1 Samuel 25: 16) Any further details of those commemorated would be gratefully received: please contact [email protected]. Details of those who did not lose their lives in the Second World War, e.g. Simon Birch, are given in italics. Abel-Smith, Robert Eustace Anderson, Ian Francis Armitage, George Edward Born March 24, 1909 at Cadogan Square, Born Feb. 25, 1917, in Wokingham, Berks. Born Nov. 20, 1919, in Lincoln. Son of London SW1, son of Eustace Abel Smith, JP. Son of Lt-Col. Francis Anderson, DSO, MC. George William Armitage. City School, School, Eton. Admitted as Pensioner at School, Eton. Admitted as Pensioner at Lincoln. Admitted as State Scholar at Trinity, Trinity, Oct. 1, 1927. BA 1930. Captain, 3rd Trinity, Oct. 1, 1935. BA 1938. Pilot Officer, Oct. 1, 1938. BA 1941. Lieutenant, Royal Grenadier Guards. Died May 21, 1940. RAF, 53 Squadron. Died April 9, 1941. Armoured Corps, 17th/21st Lancers. Died Buried in Esquelmes War Cemetery, Buried in Wokingham (All Saints) June 10, 1944. Buried in Rome War Hainaut, Belgium. (FWR, CWGC ) Churchyard. (FWR, CWGC ) Cemetery, Italy. (FWR, CWGC ) Ades, Edmund Henry [Edmond] Anderson, John Thomson McKellar Armitage, Stanley Rhodes Born July 24, 1918 in Alexandria, Egypt. ‘Jock’ Anderson was born Jan. 12, 1918, in Born Dec. 16, 1902, in London. Son of Fred- Son of Elie Ades and the Hon. Mrs Rose Hampstead, London; son of John McNicol erick Rhodes Armitage. Rugby School. Adm. O’Brien. Charterhouse School. Admitted as McKellar Anderson. Stowe School. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1921. BA Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1936. BA 1939. as Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1936. BA 1924. Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 7 Coast Lieutenant, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire 1939. Married to Moira Anderson, of Regiment. Mentioned in despatches . Died Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Died May Chessington, Surrey. Major, 8th Argyll and Sept. 14, 1943. Commemorated on Singapore 27, 1942. Buried in Knights-bridge War Sutherland Highlanders. Victoria Cross , Memorial. ( FWR, CWGC ) Cemetery, Libya. (FWR, CWGC ) DSO . “During the attack on Longstop Hill, Tunisia, on 23rd April, 1943, Major Ashton, Claude Thesiger Aguirre, Enrique Manuel Anderson, as leading Company Commander, led the assault on the battalion’s first Born Feb. 19, 1901 in Calcutta, Bengal, Born May 25, 1903, in Anerley, Middlesex. objective. Very heavy casualties were India. Son of Hubert Shorrock Ashton and Son of Enrique Blois [or Blas] and Henrietta incurred, including the Commanding Officer Victoria Alexandrina (nee Inglis). School, Emma Aguirre. School, St Edmund’s killed and all other Company Commanders Winchester College. Admitted as Pensioner College, Ware, Herts. Admitted as Pensioner killed or wounded. Major Anderson re- at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1920. BA 1923. Triple at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1921. BA 1925. Of 152 organised the battalion, led the assault on the ‘blue’ for cricket, Association football and Croydon Road, Anerley, Kent. Died Sept. 25, second objective, and, despite a leg wound, hockey. Full international cap for Associa- 1941 as a civilian, c/o S.S. Avoceta . Comme- captured Longstop Hill with a total force of tion football. Married to Isabel (nee Norman- morated in Westminster Abbey. (FWR, CWGC ) only four officers and less than forty other Butler). Of Ingatestone, Essex. Chartered ranks. He personally led attacks on at least accountant. Squadron Leader, Royal Air Allanson, Kenneth Austin three enemy machine-gun positions and in Force (Auxiliary Air Force), 256 Squadron. every case was the first man in the enemy Died Oct. 31, 1942. Buried in Ingatestone Born March 2, 1924 at Lythe, North Riding, gun-pits. It is largely due to this officer’s and Fryerning Cemetery, Essex. (FWR, CWGC ) Yorkshire. Son of William Allanson. bravery and daring that Longstop Hill was Wokingham Grammar School. Admitted as captured, and it was the inspiration of his Bailey, Douglas James Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1942. Private, example that encouraged leaderless men to 4th King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Died continue the advance.” ( LG June 29, 1943) Born June 18, 1909, in Canterbury, Kent. March 2, 1945. Buried in Reichswald Forest Died Oct. 5 1943 at Termoli, Italy. Buried in Son of Lt-Col. Frederick George Glyn War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy. ( FWR, Bailey. Harrow School. Admitted as Germany. ( FWR , CWGC ) CWGC ) Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1928. BA 1931. Married to Joan Sophie; of Childrey, Berks. Allhusen, Frederick Eden Anderson, Michael Herbert Major, 2nd Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Died May 15, 1944. Buried in Born Feb. 26, 1917, in London. Son of Lt- Born Dec. 10, 1916, at Devonport, Devon. Cassino War Cemetery, Italy. (FWR, CWGC ) Col. Frederick Allhusen, CMG, DSO. Son of John Sloane Anderson. School, School, Eton. Admitted as Pensioner at Clifton College. Admitted as Pensioner at Baker Cresswell, Gilfrid Edward Trinity, Oct. 1, 1935. BA 1938. Lieutenant, Trinity, Oct. 1, 1935. BA 1938. Married to then Captain, Royal Armoured Corps, Priscilla Ann (née Troughton), of Kingston, Born July 15, 1914, in Edinburgh, Scotland. 15th/19th Battalion, The King’s Royal Lewes, Sussex. Pilot Officer, Royal Air Son of Henry Gilfrid Baker Cresswell and Hussars. Military Cross . Died Jun 17, 1941. Force, 600 Squadron. Mentioned in Vera. Westminster School. Admitted as Buried in Stoke Poges (St Giles) Churchyard, Despatches . Died May 10, 1940. Buried in Pensioner (Royal Engineers Officer) at Buckinghamshire. (FWR, CWGC ) Spijkenisse General Cemetery, Zuid- Trinity, Oct. 1, 1934. BA 1936. Married to Holland, the Netherlands. (FWR, CWGC ) Anne Sylvia; of Chathill, Northumberland. Amos, Colin Sheldon Major, Royal Engineers. Died Oct. 27, 1942. Arbuthnot, Myles Henry Buried in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Born Nov. 29, 1913, at Gezira, Cairo, Egypt. (FWR, CWGC ) Son of Sir Maurice Sheldon Amos, KC, of Born Aug. 17, 1911, in Baltimore, Co. Cork, Ulpha, Cumberland. Leighton Park School, Ireland. Son of Major John Bernard Balfour, Anthony Melville Reading. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Arbuthnot. School, Eton. Adm. as Pensioner Oct. 1, 1932. BA 1935. Driver, Royal Army at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1929. BA 1935. Major, Born Dec. 11, 1916, at 18 Wilton Crescent, Service Corps. Died Aug. 4, 1940. Buried in Royal Corps of Signals. MBE . Died Oct. 16, Lon-don SW. Son of Melville Balfour, MC, Ulpha (St John) New Churchyard. (FWR, 1943. Buried in Bari War Cemetery, Italy. and Margaret Mary; of Wintershill Hall, CWGC ) (FWR, CWGC ) Hampshire. School, Eton. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1935. Captain, 1st Scots Guards. Military Cross . Died Feb. 9, 1944. Buried in Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy. ( FWR, CWGC ) Ball, Brian Francis Major, Royal Armoured Corps, 12th Royal Commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Lancers. Died Nov. 5, 1941. Buried in Memorial, Hampshire. (FWR, CWGC ) Born May 15, 1912, at Mellor, Derbyshire. Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery, Kwazulu Son of Frank Norman Ball and Alice, of Natal, South Africa. (FWR, CWGC ) Bell, Clephan William Hamilton Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. St Bees School, Cumberland. Adm. as Pens.at Trinity, Oct. 1, Barkley, Hugh Alastair Yuille Born Jan. 7, 1905, in Seymour Street, 1931. BA 1934. Associate Member of the London. Son of Dr Robert Hamilton Bell. Institute of Electrical Engineers. Pilot Offi- Born Oct. 10, 1921, at Weybridge, Surrey. School, Winchester College. Admitted as cer, RAF Volunteer Reserve, 218 Squadron. Son of Thomas Yuille Barkley; brother of Entrance Exhibitioner at Trinity, Oct. 1, Died June 26, 1942. Commemorated at Run- Thomas Ian Yuille (1943). School, Marlbo- 1923. BA 1926. Aircraftman 2nd Class, nymede Memorial, Surrey. (FWR, CWGC ) rough College. Adm. as Pensioner at Trinity, RAF. Mentioned in despatches . Died Dec. Jan. 5, 1940. BA 1943. Flying Officer, RAF 3, 1942. Commemorated on Singapore Ballantine Dykes, Thomas Volunteer Reserve, 640 Squadron. Died Feb. Memorial. ( FWR, CWGC ) 16, 1944. Buried in Harrogate (Stonefall) Lamplugh Cemetery, Yorkshire. (FWR, CWGC ) Bickersteth, Robert Langdale Born June 30, 1912, at Dovenby Hall, Cock- Barnard, Robert Hugh Born Aug. 26, 1908, in Rodney Street, Liver- ermouth, Cumberland. Son of Col. Hubert pool. Son of Robert Alexander Bickersteth, Frescheville Ballantine Dykes, DSO, OBE, Born July 26, 1901, at St Patrick’s, Solihull, FRCS. School, Eton. Admitted as Pensioner of Broughton-in-Furness, Lancs. School, Warwickshire. Son of Revd Gilbert William at Trinity, Oct. 1, 1927. BA 1930, MA 1934. Eton. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. Barnard. School, Osborne and Dartmouth Married to Penelope (née Waterfield), of 1, 1930. BA 1933. Major, 2nd Scots Guards. RN Colleges. Admitted as Pensioner at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland. Major, 7th Died June 13, 1942. Buried in Knightsbridge Trinity, Oct. 1, 1922. BA 1925, MA 1932. Seaforth Highlanders. Died June 26, 1944. War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya. (FWR, CWGC ) Married to Dorothea Rose, of Vumba, Buried in St Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia. Captain, Gordon Calvados, France. (FWR, CWGC ) Balston, James Peter Henry Highlanders. Mentioned in despatches. Died April 16, 1943. Commemorated at Rangoon Birch, Simon Born May 18, 1913, in Maidstone, Kent. Son Memorial, Myanmar, Burma. (FWR, CWGC ) of Francis William Balston. School, Malvern Born March 15, 1921, at 22 Prince Albert College. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Bassett Wilson, Paul Francis Road, London NW. Son of Wyndham Lindsay Oct. 1, 1931. BA 1934 (Mechanical Science Birch. Admitted as Pensioner at Trinity, Oct. Tripos). Married to Penelope. Flying Officer, Born April 22, 1920, at Earls Court, London. 1, 1939. Mistakenly recorded as killed in RAF (Auxiliary Air Force), 500 Squadron. Son of Captain Bassett Fitzgerald Wilson, of action, but the man killed was not the Simon Died March 27 1940. Commemorated at Chelsea, London. Stowe School. Admitted as Birch who attended Trinity. (Trinity Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.