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The Old Derbeian Society
He will long be remembered with all kindly feelings by those who were at School with him and his loss deeply felt.
On leaving School Lieut. Munro entered upon a preparation for a business career but as soon as he was sufficient age to the War Office requirements he applied for a Commission and was Gazetted to the Cameron Highlanders.
He soon went to the front and had seen considerable fighting when he met his death.
Charles Henry Nicholson - 1879 to 1882
Pte. C. H. Nicholson, Canadian Infantry, as killed in action in France, Sept. 26th 1916 aged 51 years. During his time at School he was distinguished as an all- round athlete. He was in the Football XI; stroke of the Boat in 1881; won the Steeplechase Mile in the same year; and the open Quarter and Hundred Yards in 1882. Shortly after leaving School he entered upon a business career in Canada and on the outbreak of war at once enlisted as a private, though much over military age and went to France as one of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Alexander William Burrell Orr – 1908 – 1910
Born September 9th 1896 he came to the School in September 1908. On leaving in July, two years later, he gained a King’s Scholarship into the King’s Hospital, Dublin from which he entered Trinity College having gained the Wilson scholarship of that school. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 3rd Public Schools’ Battn. Of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) and went with them to France, and there met his death in action being killed by a grenade.
His Major, in writing to his mother says:-
“It is a big loss to my company to lose men of the type of your son. He had already proved himself a fine man with never a grumble, always willing to do his bit and a little bit more. Fellows like Orr are the type who make one feel the eventual certainty of our victory, for they surely could not have been moved willingly to give up everything for anything less than right”.
Cecil Alfred Orton
Major C. A. Orton, R.G.A. Dies on Sept 30th 1917 of illness contracted on active service aged 43 years. He was the third son of the late Rec. F. Orton, late Rector of Swyre, Dorset, five of whose sons were educated at the School.
At the time of the South African War he entered the Cape Mounted Rifles and served throughout the Campaign receiving the Queen’s and King’s Medals and in 1900 was awarded a Commission on the recommendation of Lord Roberts. He afterwards served on the West Coast of Africa and in India. At the outbreak of the present War he was a Captain, and serving as Adjutant of the East Riding R.G.A. On September 15th 1915 he went to the front and obtained his Majority in 1916. In the same year he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislas. He was married in 1909 and leaves a widow and a son 4 years old.
At School he was a good all round athlete and was in both the Cricket and Football XI’s and afterwards played football for North Oxfordshire.
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