Melvill
Below we list of all those from Melvill House who were killed in action or died from wounds on Active Service in the Great War of 1914-18 and the Second World War, 1939-45. The fallen are listed alphabetically by surname in the year of their death. Where known, the month of death is also included.
Links to further information are given where that information is known or provided by the family.
1914-18 War
Over 50 OHs from Melvill died during the Great War. The Roll includes 4 MCs and 4 DSOs.
One of the casualties was Rycharde Haythornthwaite (M 1906). Rycharde was in the XXX and the 2nd XI in 1913 and was a History Exhibitioner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
A Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Bn. Buffs (East Kent Regiment), he was killed at the second battle of Ypres on 24th May 1915. ?He is commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial.
Paul Chapman’s Menin Gate North states his body was buried “outside the garden gate of a ruined cottage, right-hand side of the Menin Road, about 1,000 yards beyond the level crossing of the Ypres-Roulers Railway in one of three graves.”
Rycharde was 21 when he was killed.
1914
Capt. A F Attwood (1894.1) Sep 1914
Capt. H L C Baldwin (1892.2) Nov 1914
Capt. F H Barton (1894.1) Nov 1914
Capt. C F deB Boone (1884.2) Sep 1914
Capt. C E F Campbell (1894.3) Oct 1914
Maj. A D Green, DSO (1887.3) Sep 1914
Capt. H L Helme (1892.2) Sep 1914
Lt. J F Hewitt (1903.2) Oct 1914
L/Cpl. W R Ruxton (1909.1) Nov 1914
1915
Lt. Col. W M Bliss (1880.2) Mar 1915
Lt. F E Cadge (1907.1) Apr 1915
Capt. W M Cadge (1903.2) Sep 1915
Capt. G D P Eykyn (1895.1) Apr 1915
2nd. Lt. R M D Harvey (1901.2) Apr 1915
2nd. Lt. R M Haythornthwaite (1906.1) May 1915 (Head of School)
2nd. Lt. R N Loring (1901.3) Jun 1915
Lt. J A Peto (1910.3) Aug 1915
Capt. J C Pickersgill-Cunliffe (1896.3) Jun 1915
Lt. M R Singleton (1909.3) May 1915
2nd. Lt. A G Walker (1903.3) May 1915
Capt. A E M Ward (1891.3) Aug 1915
1916
Lt. Col. S S Binny, DSO (1885.2) Feb 1916
Lt. G d’A C Clarke (1902.3) Jan 1916
Lt. R M D’Ombrain (1906.1) Mar 1916
Pvt. R B Furley (1895.1) Oct 1916
2nd. Lt. J R M Lawrence (1908.2) Aug 1916
Capt. J M Round, MC (1907.2) Nov 1916
2nd. Lt. A C Taylor (1902.1) Jul 1916
2nd. Lt. M B Tench (1907.2) Aug 1916
1917
Lt. J M Borrer (1903.1) Sep 1917
Lt. F C Coleman (1911.3) Apr 1917
Lt. L V Desborough (1909.3) Nov 1917
Maj. J C T Gaskell (1897.2) Aug 1917
Lt. Col. R N Knatchbull, DSO (1885.3) Jul 1917
Lt. Col. J W M Morgan, DSO (1884.1) Mar 1917
Lt. P G C Saillard (1912.3) Aug 1917
Capt. A Stone (1901.2) Apr 1917
2nd. Lt. R H W Upton (1911.1) May 1917
2nd.Lt. J I Watson (1911.2) Aug 1917
Lt. E R Wilkinson, MC (1907.2) Oct 1917
1918
2nd.Lt. C C Baring (1911.2) Mar 1918
2nd.Lt. R A Baring (1913.2) Jun 1918
Lt. G B Burridge, MC (1905.1) May 1918
Maj. H T Clare (1910.3) Apr 1918
2nd.Lt. J C Gordon (1903.2) Mar 1918
Brig.Gen. R C Gore, CB, CMG (1880.3) Apr 1918
2nd.Lt. J H C Lane (1898.1) Oct 1918
Capt. G C Mead, MC (1891.2) Jan 1918
Capt. A T Rice-Jones (1905.2) Mar 1918
Lt. J I Royds (1890.2) Mar 1918
2nd.Lt. P C Weaver-Adams (1913.1) Oct 1918
Flt/Lt. L E B Wimbush (1912.1) Mar 1918
1923
Lt. A Howard (1898.3) Sep 1923
1939-45 War
30 OHs from Melvill died in the service of their country during WW2.
One of the Roll is Trafford Mallory (M 1906), as he was known at Haileybury, studied law at Magdelen College, Cambridge. A second lieutenant, South Lancashire Regiment, he was wounded at Ypres, after which he joined the nascent Royal Flying Corps, the future RAF.
He played a key role in the Battle of Britain and was the key exponent of the tactic known as the “Big Wing”. In 1943 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force for the Normandy Invasion.
Aged 52, Sir Trafford was killed in an air crash in the French Alps in August 1944. He is buried at Allemont (Le Rivier) Communal Cemetery, France.
1939
Plt/Off. J G L Haigh (1927.3) Oct 1939
1940
CF4 Rev. R T Podmore (1916.1) May 1940
1941
Civ. C V Barker (1891.2) Apr 1941
Cpl. J M Houghton (1920.3) Dec 1941
1942
Lt. G M Allen (1935.3) Nov 1942
Maj. A H Clarke, MC (1906.1) Jun 1942
Plt/Off. C R K Fry (1936.2) Oct 1942
Maj. J D Harbord (1923.1) Nov 1942
Flt/Lt. P F Mayhew (1933.1) Feb 1942
2nd. Lt. I F Melville (1934.3) Jun 1942
Sgt. G W Moffatt (1926.1) Jun 1942
2nd. Lt. P Paxton-Harding (1919.1) Feb 1942
Lt. Col. G C Thorne, DSO (1911.3) Mar 1942
Sub/Lt. [A] R F Townend, RN (1933.1) Aug 1942
1943
Lt. E H Enraght (1911.3) Dec 1943
Lt. Col. R N K Granville (1920.2) Jul 1943
Flg/Off. P A Levy (1936.3) Aug 1943
Flg/Off. G S Smith (1936.1) Jul 1943
1944
Lt. Col. L C M Bellamy (1912.3) Jul 1944
Capt. P T Cash, MC (1931.3) Jul 1944
Pte. R Gale (1924.3) Feb 1944
Air Chief Marshall Sir T L Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO (1906.2) Nov 1944
Col. J R J Macnamara (1919.3) Dec 1944
Capt. C F Markham-Lee (1928.3) Feb 1944
Maj. W J H Shephard (1935.1) 1944
Sub/Lt. P L Smallwood, RN (1936.3) Apr 1944
1945
Sqd/Ldr. A H Baird, DFC (1932.3) Feb 1945
Sgt. E L S Le Sage (1921.3) Nov 1945
Col. S J L Lindeman, OBE, MC (1907.1) Dec 1945
Maj. D L Smallwood (1935.1) Oct 1945
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(Please note, that Alban’s House, as a recent House, has no names under the Roll)
About the Roll of Honour
The information in this article forms part of a wider project for Old Haileyburians to submit information of family members who died on military service and who are commemorated in our Roll of Honour. Our Roll of Honour page enables you also to supply information about your own family members who died on active service.