The Tonbridge Story
The war memorial in the ante-chapel

In memoriam

The Fallen

Their names are cut in stone and iron in the ante-chapel of the School's chapel. The School remembers them one person at a time.

415Old Tonbridgians killed, 1914–18
301Old Tonbridgians killed, 1939–45
716Names in the ante-chapel

Seven hundred and sixteen

Each point is one name on the memorial. Ten are drawn brighter because we have their records; the other 706 wait for the School's list.

2nd Lieutenant D Campbell2nd Lieutenant S E BoothCaptain B BussCaptain H J L WillinkCaptain H R HarrisCaptain H W GoldingCaptain P G EgertonColonel S C Philson CIELieutenant W F JacksonPrivate E P Warner

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The last ten

The last ten to die in the First World War

In the final weeks of the war the School lost ten men. The archive follows each of them — where they were, what happened, who wrote home.

NameHouse, yearsHow the record puts it
2nd Lieutenant D Campbell — Died, aged 40, of influenza and bronchopneumonia contracted on Active Service in Rouen, France
2nd Lieutenant S E Booth PH 1909-12 Killed in a flying accident in Ossoigne, France, aged 23
Captain B Buss — Died, aged 32, at Wandsworth Military Hospital after an operation necessitated by Wounds received in Action at Shaikh Sa’ad
Captain H J L Willink PS 1898-1903 Died aged 34 of septic poisoning from wounds received at Famars, France
Captain H R Harris PS 1901-04 Died aged 31 on his way home from Salonika, after being taken ill with influenza and pneumonia
Captain H W Golding HS 1907-10 Killed in action near Ghissignies, France aged 26
Captain P G Egerton — Died of wounds received in action at Es Salt, Palestine, aged 24
Colonel S C Philson CIE JH 1874-78 Died in India from pneumonia, following influenza, aged 58
Lieutenant W F Jackson JH 1900-05 Killed in action at the Battle of Shargat, Mesopotamia, aged 33
Private E P Warner FH 1913-15 Killed in action at Maresches, France, aged 20

The full series, with each man's story, is held in the School's archive on Tonbridge Connect. This page is a summary made by the History Society; house and year details are taken from the original entries.