War Memorials

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The Memorials

Those past students of the school who were among the fallen of the two world wars are commemorated in the Boston Grammar School library.

1914-18

Harry Kinley Allen
Percy William Barrand
Charles Henry Burchnall
Arthur Chester
Robert Leonard Chapman
Sydney Randolph Cheavin
John Francis Cheesewright
George Henry Clayton
Cyril George Stuart Claypoole
Thomas Comer
John Hurle Davies
Edgar Dawson
W. Stanley Dickenson
Sydney Wilkinson Flintham
Robert Henry Garnham
Frank Green
Arthurwellesley Gregory
George Elliot Hall
Donald Justin Harrison
Walter Herringshaw
Albert Ernest Lucas
Alfred Plumtree Maltby
George Herbert Payne
Henry George Pinner
James Pocklington
Allan Edward Graham Porter
John Edwin Ransome
Herbert Rayson Sears
Eric Maudslay Simpson
John Robert Smith
Meaburn Staniland
Geoffrey Staniland
John William Stephenson
Leslie Miller Stubley
John Stanton Thorns Thompson
Thomas Waterfield
Alan Webber
Hermann Wedd
George Leonard White
Charles Sinclair Wood
Thomas Basil Wood
Henry Woods

While researching for his series of books commemorating the fallen whose names appear on the Boston War Memorial (and others in Boston) Dr William M Hunt, MPhil, PhD identified three casualties of the First World War who were Boston Grammar School pupils not included on the School Memorial:

  • Leonard Edward Adams, 2nd Battalion, The London Regiment - killed 13th March 1918
  • Arthur Rastall, Royal Engineers - died of wounds, 16th November 1918 (buried in the Military Section of Boston Cemetary)
  • Edgar Sutcliffe, Labour Corps - killed, 17 August 1917

1939-45

Arthur Appleby
Bernard Benjamin Armstrong
Stanley Rans Ashton
Frank Reginald Bothamley
Ronald Arthur Brant
Richard Henry Broadley
James William Broughton
James Eden Browning
Walter Henry Brunning
Norman Coatner Cowley
Raymond Jack Cross
David Walter Crann
Frederick John Day
Charles Dodson
James Arthur Richard Eley
Dennis Norman Green
Arthur Herbert Greenfield
Peter Hatfield
Jack Vernon Hindle
George Tom Marshall Holland
Michael John Howse
Charles Ne Ville Judson
Albert Bernard Langford
William Robert Mashford
Herbert Roy Mowbray
Peter Nicholson
Cyril Ostler
Frank Overton
George William Palmer
Norman Peet
George Raymond Perriman
Frederick George Reeson
Richard Bernard Rice
Frank Herbert Richardson
Geoffrey Rysdale
Joseph Simpson Shaw
John Meaburn Staniland
Robert Henry Stanwell
Douglas Merson Steel
George Swift
Alan Charles Turner
Henry Ernest Vosper
John Henry Watson
Paul West
Ralph Wood Ward
Basil Merle Wright

Dr Hunt also found two casualties of the Second World War who were ommitted from the memorial:

  • Dennis Henry Bettison
  • Thomas Edward Lawson

Dr Hunt's two volumes "A Town Remembers Those commemorated on the Boston War Memorial" are published in association with the "History of Boston Project". Volume I: The First World War; Volume II: The Second World War.