Old Loughtonians Lost in Battle

We are grateful to Old Loughtonian, Keith Pye (1954) who has been researching some of the Old Loughtonians who were lost in battle in both world wars.

• Geoffrey Plateras Lawson Jacques

  Killed in a mid-air crash aged 18

• Harold H. Hills

  Killed in action 21st March 1918 near Noreuil, France

• Horace Ward Barker

  At just 15, the youngest Loughton scholar to die

• Sidney Herbert & Lesley Stuart Liddle

  Old Loughtonian brothers lost in battle in 1917

• Philip David Lloyd

  Learnt to fly at Stapleford Aerodrome and joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve

• Primrose McConnell

  Primrose (1890 – 1918) joined the School’s First Form in September 1898, aged 8

• Francis Humphrey Robillard

  Died on 4th October 1917

• Percy James Skinner

  His name is recorded on the Australian national memorial at Villiers-Bretonneaux, France and on the Australian war memorial in Canberra, Australia

• William Charles Knight

  “He was a fine officer and quite a gentlemanly fellow”

• Benjamin George Platten

  Injured in High Road, Loughton

• Alan Peter Quatremain

  Lost on HMS Corncrake 25th January 1943

• Thomas Bowditch

  Thomas Bowditch Company Quartermaster Serjeant death 30th April 1918

• Basil Guy Gingell M.C.

  Second Lieutenant the 1st Battalion Essex regiment

• Douglas Sheldon Catlin

  Douglas was a Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment