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Topographical Drawing: Triangulation and Traversing, by Gentleman Cadet Hutchinson, May 1878.
Yard’. Now, a fitting display place for this memo- rabilia needs to be found.
Staying with an animal theme, a second species has also wended its way back to the Academy. A prodigious pike of 16 1⁄2 lbs, absconded, or more likely was abducted, in the late 1980s from New College. A generous donor, into whose posses- sion the pike had come, brought it back after having given it some ‘TLC’. The pike was origi- nally caught by Gentleman Cadet Hugh Valdave Warrender on the 12 April 1889. Warrender was a cadet between September 1888 and Septem- ber 1889. Here is an extract from his obituary in the Uxbridge Gazette of 1926:
After Sandhurst, he joined the 1st Battal- ion of the Grenadier Guards [] in Decem- ber, 1889, and soon showed the courage and largeness of heart which distinguished him all his life, by devoting much of his lei- sure to philanthropic work in the East End – a striking manifestation of character in a Guards subaltern in those days. Retir- ing from the Guards in 1897, from that date until the outbreak of war in 1914 he gave his time to sport, travel and garden- ing. He rode in the company of a friend through a wide part of Morocco before the French or Spanish zones existed, and he shot game along the Dinder river in the Southern Sudan; but gardening was the passion of his life, and for many years he was on the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Topographical Drawing: Preliminary Field Sketch, ‘Survey of Barossa Hill’, by Hutchinson, May 1878.
At the outbreak of war, though he was nearly 46, Warrender was gazetted as lieutenant to the Reserve of Officers; in September 1914, he was appointed major in the 15th London Regiment, Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles. He went to France in 1915, in command of B Company of the 1st Bat- talion, and less than five months after- wards was promoted to command the battalion. During the following year, this battalion greatly distinguished itself, and Lt Col Warrender was mentioned four times in dispatches. In May the battalion was brought up in a hurry from brigade reserve and took a gallant and costly part in the effort to retain the Vimy Ridge. In consequence of that action, Lt Col War- render was awarded the DSO on June 3rd. In September of the same year, under his command, the battalion helped to capture the famous High Wood in the first battle of the Somme. In the follow- ing November he was appointed Com- mandant of the 47th Divisional Offic- ers’ School at Poperinghe, and later he served until the end of the war as rep- resentative in Rome of the Ministry of Munitions.
He counted his friends – and the name of them was legion – in the most differ- ent circles. Though unassuming and reti- cent, he had a curious gift of impressing himself without conscious intention upon
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