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The Old Derbeian Society
Cyril Claude Howard Tripp – 1903 to 1905
2nd Lieut. In the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. Was killed in France Nov. 13th 1916 aged 20 years. He enlisted in the H.A.C. soon after the outbreak of war and was wounded in June 1915. In the following August he was gazetted to the Special Reserve of the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. and left for the Front in June.
Donald Owen Howard Tripp – 1899 to
Capt. D.O. Tripp, D.S.O., Loyal North Lancashire Regt. was killed in action in France, August 16th 1916. He received his commission in December 1914 and was made temporary Captain April 1916. He fought with great gallantry and distinction in the war, was twice wounded and on March 30th 1916 was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for 'conspicuous gallantry and determination'. An account of this special act of distinction was given in The Derbeian of July 1916, namely “When he and several of his bombers had been wounded during an enemy bomb attack, he had his wounds hurriedly dressed, returned to his post and with only a sergeant and two bombers, kept the enemy at bay. When the two bombers were wounded he sent the Sergeant back for reinforcements, and single-handed held up the enemy for twenty minutes until relieved”.
Edward Roy Wilmshurst – 1901 to 1914
Lieut Edward Roy Wilmshurst, Royal Fusiliers was wounded on the Somme in October while gallantly holding a newly taken German trench in command of his company. From the first his wounds were dangerous but for a time he rallied, until a fortnight ago complications set in and he passed away on Dec. 1st at the Red Cross Hospital at Rouen.
Before the occasion on which he was wounded he had already commanded a company for five weeks and his Colonel has written saying that at his request the War Office had given Lieut. Wilmshurst a Captains' commission dating from Oct 10th 1916.
His long School career was a remarkably successful one, alike in the classroom and on the sports' field, indeed there was hardly a department of school life in which he did not win his way to the front by his ability, hard work and energy. For his last two years he was captain of the School and during his last year captain of Football. He was for several seasons a prominent member of both football and cricket elevens and carried off many prizes at the athletic and swimming sports. He held the School record for the long distance under water distance 100 feet; and another for diving for tins and won the School mile in 1914.
He rose to be Colour Sergeant in the O.T.C. and was the first cadet in the School Corps to win the War Office Certificate “A”.
In December 1915 he gained an open exhibition in Modern History at Keeble College, Oxford.
On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 4th Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and was soon gazetted to a commission in that Regt. He saw a great variety of training service in England and went to the Western Front in the spring of this year and had been through a great deal of fighting before the action in which he was wounded.
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