We died 100 years ago in the War to end all War

Sunday 20 June 1915 – We Lost 267 General Botha’s troops enter Omaruru, SW Africa from which the German government has recently beaten a hasty retreat. HMS Roxburgh is damaged by a torpedo. Today’s losses include: Two players for the Rosslyn Park Football Club

An Olympic silver medalist

A hockey player

Multiple men who will have a brother also killed in the Great War

Multiple men who are the sons of members of the clergy Today’s highlighted casualties are: Second Lieutenant Wakefield Walde Meade (Worcestershire Regiment) is killed at age 19. He is the son of the Reverend Wakefield Suft Meade Rector of Loddington.

Second Lieutenant Wakefield Walde Meade (Worcestershire Regiment) is killed at age 19. He is the son of the Reverend Wakefield Suft Meade Rector of Loddington. Second Lieutenant George Keith Savile (Gloucestershire Regiment) is killed at age 26. His brother will be killed in August 1916.

Sub Lieutenant Alan Chadwick Iliffe (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) is killed in action on Gallipoli at age 30. He played hockey for Hertfordshire and Lancashire.

Second Lieutenant George Eric Fairbairn (Durham Light Infantry) is killed at Bailleul at age 26. He is a silver Olympic medalist as the bowman in the coxless pairs in 1908. He also played rugby for Rosslyn Park F C and the nephew of celebrated rower Steve Fairbairn.

Another Rosslyn Park footballer died today when Lieutenant Eustace Fernando Llarena (Suffolk Regiment) is killed at age 23.

Lance Corporal Thomas Henry Taylor (Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry) is killed at age 22. His brother will be killed in May 1917.

Private Herbert Victor Tomlinson (King’s Shropshire Light Infantry) is killed at age 28. His brother will die of illness just before the Armistice in November 1918.

Private William Glass (East Kent Regiment) is killed in action at age 25. His brother was killed last month.

Private Richard Littlehales (Coldstream Guards) dies at home on service. He is the son of the Reverend Walter Gouth Littlehales Rector of Balvan. Share this: Twitter

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